[QGIS-Developer] Changelog maintenance

[Charles Dixon-Paver]

Greetings QGIS community,

With the release of 3.16 LTS around the corner, we are hoping to have the
changelog ready to publish at the time of release. The developers have been
hard at work implementing a wealth of new features, which of course makes
for a lot of new entries in the changelog which need some help getting
dressed up and "publication ready".

It would be great if some community members would like to get involved in
the changelog maintenance process. It is a great way to contribute to the
community without the need for highly specialised skills. The skills you
will need are:

- Strong command of the English language
- Decent writing ability
- Some basic understanding of the QGIS functionalities and changes you will
be describing...

Basically, the process entails taking the contents from Pull Requests of
features introduced by the developers and tidying up the entry into a more
publication friendly format suitable for end users.

We have detailed the workflow for changelog maintenance [1], which includes
a recording of our walkthrough of the changelog maintenance process from
kwakfest.

Of particular interest to those interested in partaking are the
conventions[2] used when editing changelog entries.

To get involved, you will need to sign up or have an account at the
changelog site[3] and contact myself or Tim Sutton in order to get edit
permissions for the changelog entries.

The more eyes we have going over these entries, the less likely it is that
errors will be overlooked. Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Emails and queries can be directed to charles[at]kartoza.com

[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/Changelog-Workflows
[2]
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/Changelog-Workflows#conventions-for-changelog-entries
[3] https://changelog.qgis.org

Regards

-- 
Charles Dixon-Paver - GIS Specialist
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