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

Sun Mar 1 03:13:29 PST 2020

Hi Tim, all,
I surely miss something here, but what is the reason for our system? I
have seen an interesting recent attempt by Salvatore:
https://github.com/pigreco/changelog312
which looks much easier to implement and update.
Cheers.

Il 28/02/20 13:44, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
> 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
>> <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 19:49, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com
>> <mailto: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
>>> <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> On 5 Feb 2020, at 17:03, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch
>>>> <mailto: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
>>>> <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4 Feb 2020, at 23:57, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto: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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tim Sutton
>>>>
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