[Qgis-developer] Preparing the Changelog for 2.18

[Nyall Dawson]

On 6 October 2016 at 08:20, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 octobre 2016 00:15:50, Nyall Dawson a écrit :
>> On 6 October 2016 at 06:54, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>> > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2016 22:33:04, Tim Sutton a écrit :
>> >> Hi All
>> >>
>> >> I have started preparing the changelog for 2.18:
>> >>
>> >> http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/2.18.0/
>> >>
>> >> The usual caveat applies: Please do not publicize this link until the
>> >> changelog is completed and the release is ready.
>> >>
>> >> If anyone has worked on newsworthy features for 2.18 please add your
>> >> proposed entries there (I am still working back through the commit log
>> >> adding any obvious ones I can see there, I will finish that tomorrow
>> >> night). You should be able to sign in to the site and post new entries
>> >> using your GitHub user credentials. If that presents any problem for
>> >> you, please just email me directly with the text and ideally a
>> >> screenshot, and I will add it for you. Also if you can improve text and
>> >> graphics for existing entries, please feel free to submit your
>> >> suggestions.
>> >>
>> >> I will be adding a few notes at the top of the changelog description of
>> >> the upcoming feature freeze breakage for 2.18.1 (to add DWG support)
>> >> and 2.18.2 GeoPackage provider improvements. @Even could you provide a
>> >> little detail about the planned GeoPackage improvements for 2.18.2?
>> >
>> > Tim,
>> >
>> > Hum, I'm not sure if this will go into 2.18. Was more intended to be for
>> > master and possibly backported in master_2 if feasible. But I guess if
>> > master_2 is doable, backport to 2.18.X could also be done (although there
>> > will be non trivial changes in DB manager to separate the spatialite
>> > code path and GPKG code path)
>> >
>> > Anyway, here are the topics:
>> >   *   Add, rename and remove columns, both in the "Fields tab" of QGIS,
>> >   but
>> >
>> > also in the DB manager ( Note: this will require GDAL 2.2dev for rename
>> > and remove columns)
>>
>> Is this one public yet? I'd love to have a look over.
>
> I haven't started yet development of any of those items (in QGIS or in GDAL)
> for now. In the next days...

Ok - was just wondering if you're planning on hooking into existing
methods like QgsVectorDataProvider::renameAttributes here or whether
it'll be something specific to this format.

Nyall


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