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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Nyall (and others up for helping with the changelog)

Firstly apologies I couldn’t work on the changelog much on the run up to the release. If those who added features in 3.12 could be so kind as to add the ‘Changelog’ label to their PR’s and make sure the description in the PR is nicely formatted, I will put them all through into the changelog. Unfortunately I can’t (yet) slice it e.g. by date so I have to do it in one go. I did go through about 18 pages!!! Of PR’s and tried to add Changelog label to them but there are many many more pages of PR’s to review. You guys are machines. Unfortunately the volunteer that Paolo found last release to help with the changelog hasn’t resurfaced, so anyone who can help will earn my (our) undying gratitude.

I am going to try to have the auto-adding of changelog entries (based on a label) done mid cycle for the next release.

Regards


Tim

> On 11 Feb 2020, at 05:31, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 19:49, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> It sounds that going through pull requests rather than the commits make sense.
>> 
>> For now, I have created a small -- not anymore ;) -- script that will output corresponding pull requests as JSON with title, HTML body and author.
>> Working for this series, the script returns all PRs having [FEATURE] in one of their commit message or in the PR title, within the corresponding dates and targeting master
>> script: https://gist.github.com/3nids/0cf399297888ea8ebd0e64169c9fbbc2
>> output (changelog): https://gist.github.com/3nids/4f6e948a94526515391899a5701cce47
> 
> Are you sure this is working? There's definitely items missing from
> this, e..g. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/33165
> 
> Nyall
> 
> 
>> 
>> That should be easy to feed the changelog with this.
>> 
>> Probably for the future, it would be interesting to create a Changelog label?
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Denis
>> 
>> 
>> Le jeu. 6 févr. 2020 à 00:25, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> On 5 Feb 2020, at 17:03, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2/5/20 11:33 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 20:29, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 4 Feb 2020, at 23:57, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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 :(
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Now about we add a ‘Changelog’ tag that we can just go and add to each PR (either at the time of making it or retrosopectively) and we can just go through the PR queue and scan for those? Other options I guess is to strongly encourage people to use a relevant tag when they submit their PR.
>>> 
>>> Definitely. Like you've pointed out, it could be done retrospectively,
>>> and added also by others.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What are the guidelines for using [feature] in the future? I think it acted as a combination of [needs docs], [changelog] and [look, this is cool] in the past. If the first two are about to be solved by more precise labels, do we keep it for the third one or are there other compelling reasons?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> For me, I don’t have any strong opinions - I think we will build the harvester to take a user-defined list of tags that should be harvested, so that we can deal with things flexibly. Basically just looking for advice on which tags I should use and then we will set it up to use those.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> 
>>> —
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tim Sutton
>>> 
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>>> 
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Tim Sutton

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