[QGIS-Developer] Visual changelog of version 3.8

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,

On 02/07/19 04:45, Nyall Dawson wrote:

> I also reworded entries to avoid the use of passive tense "A feature
> was added which allows use of...", replacing it with the more personal
> "WE added a feature... this allows YOU to...". I did this for a number
> of reasons:
> 1. It's more exciting to read. Our releases ARE exciting, so our
> changelog should reflect this.
> 2. It helps convey the message that we are a community of people, and
> that features aren't just magically appearing in the app by faceless
> drones.
> 3. It's all our hard work, we should be able to take pride and
> ownership of it :D

Fully agreed - I also find it much more enjoyable to read, and conveys
the idea that we *are* different.

> One thing we could consider in future is mixing the sponsor messages
> in the description. eg: "In previous QGIS versions you had to ... .
> Now, thanks to sponsorship from ###, you can now directly import...".
> This would help move the sponsorship credits from the footer of
> entries up to the text itself, which would help us push the message
> that "you also can get stuff implemented by being like ### and
> sponsoring changes".

Also agreed.

Maybe we should have a small README with the style conventions we want
to use?

Cheers.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS.ORG Chair:
http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/