[QGIS-Developer] Please help with the changelog for 3.12

[Tim Sutton]

Thanks Nyall



> On 2 Feb 2020, at 22:37, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 08:10, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> QGIS 3.12 will be released in 19 days and our changelog needs a lot of love before that. If you are able to, please spend some time documenting new features and key improvements in the changelog.
>> 
>> https://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.12/
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up Tim!
> 
> I'm really busy over the next fortnight, so doubt I'll get time to do
> the initial git->changelog population (which has been done since QGIS
> 2.10 or something). Before the entries get populated in depth, we need
> a volunteer to trawl through the git changelog from the time of 3.12
> branch up to feature freeze and copy all the commits which add
> changelog worthy changes to the changelog. It can be just a direct
> copy-and-paste, leaving the cleanup for others to do later.
> 
> This needs to be done first, so that we can condense similar entries
> into one and define the general outline of the changelog **before** we
> start adding screenshots and nice text.

Is it enough to just grab the items labelled ‘Feature’ - we are planning to automatically create entries from the changelog as part of the QGIS funded improvements we are doing

https://github.com/kartoza/prj.app/issues/1128 <https://github.com/kartoza/prj.app/issues/1128>

But I was planning to set it up from after 3.12 goes out. @Anita Hapsari can you whip up something to pull all the entries out for us from over the 3.12 development period?

Regards

Tim


> 
> Any volunteers?
> 
> Nyall

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