We used to have an ether pad on pads.kicad-pcb.org where I collected notes on new features and changes for 5.0.0. But this is down, and Ajo who runs it has been unresponsive for quite some time. I was intending to start a news post on the website to collect it, but I didn't manage to do this in time.
2017-11-02 7:56 GMT+01:00 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de>: > Am 01.11.2017 um 16:20 schrieb Marco Ciampa: > > > This is my suggestion: > > > > Dev programmers whose group of patches were made accepted in the master > > tree should at least write a line in the (now inexistent) NEWS file. > > That's the way it's typically working. And looking at workflows and > methods of other long term projects can really help to not reinvent > wheels again. > > Git itself can produce some of the entries if commit are made wisely. > > git log --online [foo-options] > git whatchanged > > are the things I mostly use to get an overview whats happen in the past. > And that's why git commits should strictly follow some rules, otherwise > I need an expensive amount of time to get the needed overview what has > changed. > > > That should be made during or immediately afterwards the git merge. > > Now tracing the new features of KiCad could be very difficult. > > Can be but shouldn't. I guess every developer who has contributed > specific parts knows best what his work has changed, improved or added. > So maybe it should be started here, just write down what comes in mind > to be worth referenced in a Changelog. Based on this there needs to be > decided what has to be done on the documentation part. > > A Etherpad site could be a starting scratch notepad, someone can pick up > the notes then into a KiCad wiki site on GitHub? > > -- > Regards > Carsten Schoenert > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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