[Qgis-developer] plugin repository: release notes in plugins.xml

[Andreas Neumann]

Hello Borys and other QGIS developers,

I have a suggestion for the python plugin installer and the plugins.xml file:

Wouldn't it be useful to have a "release_notes" tag, next to the
"description" tag, indicating what changed from the last release(s)? It
would be useful to see if a problem I had might have been fixed with this
release of the python plugin, or what new feature is now available.

The python plugin installer could expose the release notes in a separate
dialogue, if the "release_notes" tag is present.

The question is if such a tag should be just unstructured text or if there
should be further child nodes for each release.

What do you think?

Andreas


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