[Qgis-community-team] Insert "what's new" section into the QGIS user manual

[Otto Dassau]

yes, that's right.

Regards
Otto

Am Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:47:16 +0100
schrieb Junior Delaz <delazj at gmail.com>:

> Hi Otto,
> Thanks for the invitation... I already follow the big work you and the
> others do (Big UP!!!) and sometimes contribute even though I feel I'm more
> a bugtracker than a writer.
> So, if I well understand your reply, the "what's new" in QGIS 2.6 is just
> an unfinished doc (as there are some sub-sections that are not writen) and,
> in 2.8, it's expected to "just" list in this section the new
> features/corrections, the detailed informations remaining in the changelog
> page. Right?
> 
> 2015-03-23 16:06 GMT+01:00 Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de>:
> 
> > Dear Harrissou,
> >
> > you are right, the "What's new" section is not updated yet. We already
> > updated a lot of 2.8 features as you can see here:
> >
> > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/commits/master
> >
> > but there is still some work to do and we would not mind to have more
> > volunteers for the documentation. So you are welcome, if you find some
> > time.
> >
> > btw, the "What's new" section always includes a link to the changelog
> > website. We want to keep it short as a list in the manual.
> >
> > Regards
> > Otto
> >
> > Am Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:37:06 +0100
> > schrieb Junior Delaz <delazj at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > while reading the section "What's new" [0] in QGIS2.6 manual, i
> > > remarked that it was really truncated, nearly empty. QGIS website [1]
> > > gives indeed more informations. I'm wondering if these informations
> > > available in the website shouldn't be included in the user manual
> > > (maybe through a link to avoid duplicating translation's effort). They
> > > are worthy of being there, no? Then, what's planned for QGIS 2.8
> > > manual? It hasn't been modified in github [2], yet. Will "what's next"
> > > section in the user manual be the
> > same
> > > that that the website already shows [3]?
> > >
> > > [0] docs.qgis.org/2.6/en/docs/user_manual/preamble/whats_new.html
> > > [1] qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog260/index.html
> > > [2]
> > >
> > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/blob/master/source/docs/user_manual/preamble/whats_new.rst
> > > [3] qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog28/index.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Harrissou
> >


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