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

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 19:21, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Nyall
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> On 2 Feb 2020, at 22:37, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 08:10, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> Hi All
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> 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.
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> https://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.12/
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> Thanks for the heads-up Tim!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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

In my experience... no. Some of us naughty developers don't always use
this tag :(

Nyall