[QGIS-Developer] Missing Changelog Features

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 22:59, Charles Dixon-Paver <charles at kartoza.com> wrote:

> @Nyall I noticed that you have introduced a lot of new features that jumped straight from PR=>merged without the changelog label.

Sorry about this! I guess I'm a little confused by the responsibility
here -- should we be tagging "Changelog" ourselves for anything which
we deem as important to include in the changelog? Or is this a label
which you want to reserve for your use only?

>
> With how hard and fast you introduce new contributions I think it would be folly for the changelog process to become a blocker for your work, so I don't particularly have an issue with this sidestepping of the "usual" process (PR=>feature label=>changelog label=>merge).
>
> You also typically provide detailed descriptions of the feature so that's not an issue for me, but if you could label your new features "Changelog" when you merge them so that I can include them as a part of the standard harvesting workflow I'd appreciate it.
>
> I tried to go collect all of those that are merged which you have tagged as "feature" for the next release and have added the following PRs to the changelog list:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38316
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38651
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38652
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38654
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38624
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/37958

I had a look, and think you've caught them all!

Nyall

>
> If anyone has suggestions for improving the changelog maintenance workflow please let me know. It's documented on https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/Changelog-Workflows
>
> Regards
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