 Oh, the community, I need your help or Blender add-ons need your help so 3.1 Blender 3.1 is around the corner is less than two weeks for it to be out and there are some add-ons that might don't make it into the final release unless we do something about it. Okay, long story short for there's a new add-ons policy in the add-ons that ship with Blender the external add-ons don't nothing has changed but the ones that ship with Blender that comes when you download Blender from Blender.org they have so for 3.0 there was a the main policy change was that the add-ons that ship with Blender should not connect to servers outside of Blender.org for security reasons so the user knows that whatever downloads if it connects it hits under Blender.org so it's secure and it's under control so that affected a few items they were removed from 3.0 and in 3.1 some of the add-ons like there's no add-ons that connects outside of Blender.org I think the Blender ID only connects to Blender ID but the there is also documentation this is the second topic documentation should always be in a place where the inside of the Blender manual basically so it should come should be all in one place Blender manual there are a few add-ons that do not comply with that yet how can I know which add-ons well go to the Blender weekend the 3.1 release notes the bottom you're gonna find add-ons inside of add-ons at the very bottom you're gonna find the ones that are not complying with the requirements those are Amaranth, Tiny Cat, Tissue and Real Snow so these add-ons need to have their documentation moved into Blender documentation the Blender manual this actually touches me personally because the Amaranth add-on is one that I made many years ago and I have its documentation in my own crappy website with Comic Sans 2.7 it's been so long but I never bothered into moving it into the actual since this add-on wasn't part of Blender back then I made a documentation my own website but now I have to move it so I have to I have to now in like this weekend is gonna be my project to move it my my task to move it homework so how do you move it where to go well if you look into the documentation project you're gonna have all the links and in the developer the Blender.org documentation project you can just search for documentation here and you're gonna go to the project this page so here you can get everything how to install it build it build again everything it's also in the manual itself if you go to Blender.org slash manual in the manual there is a section about how to contribute to the manual itself so you can go here contribute and it's just the same it's not a big deal but yeah you need to know a little bit how to install dependencies SVN is used for this so it might take a little bit and then he has to go through review and then put into the actual manual that everybody can can access so yes there is some homework but these add-ons need their help because need your help because some of the developers that have been involved in these add-ons are no longer in in yeah in touch with Blender development or maybe they're not working on this add-on anymore so it's always a good thing to go to the task and see what is the status of this so precision drawing tools I think this was changed it's not mentioned here but all the other ones are and yeah how do you know where is the documentation well in the in the add-ons themselves so let's go to tissue and the tissue I don't I think and most of them are on github yeah so documentation URL is on github so you go here and it's a matter mainly of copy-pacing this however what is the license of this of this documentation you know you have to get in touch with the developers or you can write new documentation that is not limit by the license because you could copy paste this but you know in a way you are yeah preaching the the the license of the documentation so can you help please otherwise these add-ons are gonna be disabled from the Blender 3.1 release and it's a pity because a lot of people use these add-ons I'm gonna do my own part with my own add-on with Amaranth and hope to see you involved in the other one the other add-ons how do you get involved again this is the place in the manual or you can if you want to chat as well you can go into blender.chat there is a Blender.chat there should be a link to the documentation it's if you look for the documentation channel document or docs thing and docs yeah docs so yeah here you can just ask around and you're gonna get help by the community that's it let's let's do it let's not get these add-ons removed I think you everybody understand that it's for a good cause right that every documentation should be in one place here what everybody can access it because you don't know if my own website will go down which happened in the past then the documentation for these add-ons will be will be will disappear you know it's not good so it's for the future preservation okay that's it thanks for watching and see you on the Blender.chat