Hi all, On 02/07/19 04:45, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> I also reworded entries to avoid the use of passive tense "A feature > was added which allows use of...", replacing it with the more personal > "WE added a feature... this allows YOU to...". I did this for a number > of reasons: > 1. It's more exciting to read. Our releases ARE exciting, so our > changelog should reflect this. > 2. It helps convey the message that we are a community of people, and > that features aren't just magically appearing in the app by faceless > drones. > 3. It's all our hard work, we should be able to take pride and > ownership of it :D Fully agreed - I also find it much more enjoyable to read, and conveys the idea that we *are* different. > One thing we could consider in future is mixing the sponsor messages > in the description. eg: "In previous QGIS versions you had to ... . > Now, thanks to sponsorship from ###, you can now directly import...". > This would help move the sponsorship credits from the footer of > entries up to the text itself, which would help us push the message > that "you also can get stuff implemented by being like ### and > sponsoring changes". Also agreed. Maybe we should have a small README with the style conventions we want to use? Cheers. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS.ORG Chair: http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
