John, That all sounds great!
Thanks for all you and the team do. David > On Jan 22, 2018, at 8:35 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > David, > > A reminder of what we (I think it was a collaboration between Cristian Marchi > and Christian Stimming) did last time: > https://www.gnucash.org/2.6-release-tour.phtml > <https://www.gnucash.org/2.6-release-tour.phtml>. > > As a stand-alone page IMO it can stay up forever; it becomes part of history > along with the release notices that included a link to it. > > We might consider a block/banner of some sort on the home page announcing the > new major version with a pointer to the “what’s new” page. *That* should get > removed after 6 months (2 minor releases) or so. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Jan 22, 2018, at 2:38 AM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com >> <mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>> wrote: >> >> John, >> >> I agree that the website would be a better place to promote this new report >> as well as other changes. Of course, there is already a News page that >> gathers the release notes for users, but perhaps with the Big Jump it would >> be preferable to have a special top-level page added. It would be nice if >> there were some kind of “freshness dating” for this, so that it isn’t still >> up on display in 2021… >> >> David T. >> >> >>> On Jan 22, 2018, at 7:16 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >>> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >>> >>> It's about time to think about the side stuff that goes with a major >>> release. Chris Lam has offered a PR >>> (https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/pull/106 >>> <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/pull/106>) documenting his >>> substantial enhancements to the Transaction Report and included a bunch of >>> "NEW! in 3.0" bullets. Given the way documentation is(n't) maintained I >>> think it wise not to bury something like that in a chapter, and besides we >>> need a summary document explaining everything that's changed between 2.6 >>> and 3.0. >>> >>> We had until the 2.6.14 docs a "What's New section in the Guide's overview >>> chapter that had last been updated for Version 2.2. It obviously turned >>> into an embarrassing example of how we keep such things up-to-date. I don't >>> think we should do it again. >>> >>> How about a "What's New in 3.0" page on the website? If we go with that, >>> what's the best way to collaborate in building it? >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
