[Qgis-developer] Visual changelog for 2.6

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

My apologies for my slow reply.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> Hi Denis:
>
> http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/


And one of these days I will deply a QGIS branded one on qgis.org I
promise...


>
>
> is actually this application:
>
> https://github.com/kartoza/projecta
>
> So if you have features you want to add, please do and also upload
> screenshots etc.
>
> There is the notion of approving 'feature entries', so different users
> have different roles.
>
>
> Tim managed the earlier versions, by rewriting text and asking people
> for better screenshots or additional information etc.
> Not sure if he is available now, if not it would be nice if somebody
> else takes this job.
>

Yes I plan to review everything in the changelog over the coming weekend.
As usual just stub in your ideas as entries in the 2.6 changelog or send me
an email if you can't manage the website with any entries to add and I will
review everything to get the writing style consistent, add screenshots
where needed etc.


>
> When the changelog is final, we can get a rst version of it whichi is
> then used to pull a copy into the website and become a translatable
> source like eg:
>
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog240/
>
> I cc Tim to ask if he is available for this or not.


Yes I am. And thanks Richard for making the nice explanation of the process
and thanks to Nyall and others who have been helping to populate it.

Regards

Tim


>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
>
>
> On 14-10-14 11:58, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
> > I am a bit lost with changelogs.
> >
> > Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on
> > QGIS website?
> >
> > Were the features listed above added to it?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Denis
> >
> > [0] http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/
> >
> > On 29.09.2014 07:58, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
> >> Hi Nyall,
> >>
> >> From what I see, it misses two features:
> >>
> >> * Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the
> >> possibility of triggering feature actions directly
> >>
> >> * Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map
> >>
> >> I can make some pictures for this.
> >>
> >> Best wishes
> >>
> >> Denis
> >>
> >>
> >> On 28.09.2014 12:55, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
> >>> features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
> >>> very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
> >>> at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
> >>> these entries and add screenshots, etc.
> >>>
> >>> Some notes:
> >>> - Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
> >>> commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
> >>> - I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
> >>> many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
> >>> processing can add these.
> >>> - I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
> >>> to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
> >>> of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
> >>> pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
> >>> choice...
> >>>
> >>> The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
> >>>
> >>> Nyall
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>
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