Visual changelog for 2.6

[Nyall Dawson]

Hi all,

I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.

Some notes:
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...

The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)

Nyall

[Victor Olaya]

For Processing, I would say that the most relevant change is the new
modeler, which has been completely rewritten. Not something that the user
might really notice (although there are some visual changes and new
features), but it's a big change, and I guess it's good to let people now
that it's a new modeler, in case there are things that are broken or don't
work, so they report them.

Let me know if you want me to write a more detailed description, create
screenshots or whatever

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Victor,

I think a change big like that absolutely justifies an entry. Visual
changelog is probably not meant as "visible changes" but "visually
enhanced changelog".
It would be great if you could write a couple of lines about the main
enhancements and the reasons for this change.

Thanks alot
Matthias

Post by Victor Olaya
For Processing, I would say that the most relevant change is the new
modeler, which has been completely rewritten. Not something that the
user might really notice (although there are some visual changes and
new features), but it's a big change, and I guess it's good to let
people now that it's a new modeler, in case there are things that are
broken or don't work, so they report them.
Let me know if you want me to write a more detailed description,
create screenshots or whatever
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi Nyall,

From what I see, it misses two features:

* Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the
possibility of triggering feature actions directly

* Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map

I can make some pictures for this.

Best wishes

Denis

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Victor Olaya]

Hi Nyall

Sorry for the late reply. In case you want to add the changes in
Processing, the most important ones are.

- New modeler. The modeler has been rewritten, and now provides extra
functionality such as allowing nested models with no depth limit. Models
are now stored as JSON files. Backwards compatibility is kept, so all
models can still be used.
-On-line collection of models and scripts. Models and scripts can be
downloaded from the online collection and installed directly from the
Processing interface. The collection will be expanded with new scripts and
models provided by Processing users.

Let me know if you need something else.

Cheers

Post by Denis Rouzaud
Hi Nyall,
* Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the possibility
of triggering feature actions directly
* Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map
I can make some pictures for this.
Best wishes
Denis

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Anita Graser]

Post by Victor Olaya
-On-line collection of models and scripts. Models and scripts can be
downloaded from the online collection and installed directly from the
Processing interface. The collection will be expanded with new scripts and
models provided by Processing users.

Hi Victor,
Can you provide the link to the collection? Are there instructions in
place that tell users how to share scripts/models?
Best wishes
Anita

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Post by Matthias Kuhn

Post by Victor Olaya
-On-line collection of models and scripts. Models and scripts can be
downloaded from the online collection and installed directly from the
Processing interface. The collection will be expanded with new scripts and
models provided by Processing users.

Hi Victor,
Can you provide the link to the collection? Are there instructions in
place that tell users how to share scripts/models?
Best wishes
Anita

Or preferably a link to a documentation section and some sexy
screendumps so we will have a shiny changelog like
http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog240/index.html
again :-)

TIA,

Richard Duivenvoorde

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Victor,

looking at:

http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing/scripts.html#example-scripts

I do not see something yet about the online collection? Are you able to
write about this? Or should it be on the documentation list? It's not
yet listed on

http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/ManualTasks#Updates-QGIS-24-and-26-User-Guide

Regards,

Richard

The repo with the processing scripts and models is at
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Processing
The documentation section is
at http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing/scripts.html#example-scripts
Attached you can find a screenshot with the script manager
Cheers

Post by Matthias Kuhn

Post by Victor Olaya
-On-line collection of models and scripts. Models and scripts can be
downloaded from the online collection and installed directly from the
Processing interface. The collection will be expanded with new

scripts and

Post by Matthias Kuhn

Post by Victor Olaya
models provided by Processing users.

Hi Victor,
Can you provide the link to the collection? Are there instructions in
place that tell users how to share scripts/models?
Best wishes
Anita

Or preferably a link to a documentation section and some sexy
screendumps so we will have a shiny changelog like
http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog240/index.html
again :-)
TIA,
Richard Duivenvoorde
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[Victor Olaya]

Post by Richard Duivenvoorde
http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/processing/scripts.html#example-scripts
I do not see something yet about the online collection? Are you able to
write about this? Or should it be on the documentation list? It's not
yet listed on

hmm, the "Example scripts" section contains a description of the online
collection. Maybe i should extend it and add more screenshots in there...

[Denis Rouzaud]

I am a bit lost with changelogs.

Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on
QGIS website?

Were the features listed above added to it?

Best wishes,

Denis

[0] http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/

Post by Denis Rouzaud
Hi Nyall,
* Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the
possibility of triggering feature actions directly
* Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map
I can make some pictures for this.
Best wishes
Denis

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Denis,

Nyall is talking about Tim's changelog site.

- Nathan

Post by Denis Rouzaud
I am a bit lost with changelogs.
Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on QGIS
website?
Were the features listed above added to it?
Best wishes,
Denis
[0] http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/

Post by Denis Rouzaud
Hi Nyall,
* Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the
possibility of triggering feature actions directly
* Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map
I can make some pictures for this.
Best wishes
Denis

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

What is the best way to provide information to this changelog?

Matthias

[Nyall Dawson]

Post by Denis Rouzaud
I am a bit lost with changelogs.
Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on QGIS
website?
Were the features listed above added to it?

I'm referring to Tim's one. To clarify, all I did was trawl the git
log and copy features which I think were worthy of inclusion. I
haven't written them up nicely or generated screenshots, so someone
will need to edit and reword the entries prior to release.
Unfortunately I don't have time to tackle this - I think I'm better to
stick to bug fixing and leave the wording to someone else :)

Nyall

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi Denis:

http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/

is actually this application:

https://github.com/kartoza/projecta

So if you have features you want to add, please do and also upload
screenshots etc.

There is the notion of approving 'feature entries', so different users
have different roles.


Tim managed the earlier versions, by rewriting text and asking people
for better screenshots or additional information etc.
Not sure if he is available now, if not it would be nice if somebody
else takes this job.

When the changelog is final, we can get a rst version of it whichi is
then used to pull a copy into the website and become a translatable
source like eg:

http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog240/

I cc Tim to ask if he is available for this or not.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

Post by Denis Rouzaud
I am a bit lost with changelogs.
Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on
QGIS website?
Were the features listed above added to it?
Best wishes,
Denis
[0] http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/

Post by Denis Rouzaud
Hi Nyall,
* Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the
possibility of triggering feature actions directly
* Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map
I can make some pictures for this.
Best wishes
Denis

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Tim Sutton]

Hi all

My apologies for my slow reply.

Post by Denis Rouzaud
http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/

And one of these days I will deply a QGIS branded one on qgis.org I
promise...

Post by Denis Rouzaud
https://github.com/kartoza/projecta
So if you have features you want to add, please do and also upload
screenshots etc.
There is the notion of approving 'feature entries', so different users
have different roles.
Tim managed the earlier versions, by rewriting text and asking people
for better screenshots or additional information etc.
Not sure if he is available now, if not it would be nice if somebody
else takes this job.

Yes I plan to review everything in the changelog over the coming weekend.
As usual just stub in your ideas as entries in the 2.6 changelog or send me
an email if you can't manage the website with any entries to add and I will
review everything to get the writing style consistent, add screenshots
where needed etc.

Post by Denis Rouzaud
When the changelog is final, we can get a rst version of it whichi is
then used to pull a copy into the website and become a translatable
http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog240/
I cc Tim to ask if he is available for this or not.

Yes I am. And thanks Richard for making the nice explanation of the process
and thanks to Nyall and others who have been helping to populate it.

Regards

Tim

Post by Denis Rouzaud
Regards,
Richard Duivenvoorde

Post by Denis Rouzaud
I am a bit lost with changelogs.
Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on
QGIS website?
Were the features listed above added to it?
Best wishes,
Denis
[0] http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.6.0/

Post by Denis Rouzaud
Hi Nyall,
* Enhanced identify menu with single feature selection and the
possibility of triggering feature actions directly
* Relations: possibility of selecting related features on the map
I can make some pictures for this.
Best wishes
Denis

Post by Nyall Dawson
Hi all,
I just trawled through the git commit log and copied all the new
features I could find to the visual changelog for 2.6. I've done it
very roughly, mostly just bullet points (that's all I've got time for
at the moment), so it would be appreciated if someone could flesh out
these entries and add screenshots, etc.
- Sorry if I've missed any features - it's kind of hard to tell from a
commit sometimes exactly what was added/changed
- I've left off all processing related commits as there was just too
many of them to check through. Hopefully someone more familiar with
processing can add these.
- I ran into a bug with the changelog site were there's a fixed limit
to the number of "pending" entries shown. So I had to approve a bunch
of unfinished entries to be able to properly edit these missing
pending entries. Sorry if this makes things harder to review, I had no
choice...
The new features list is HUGE. Nice work everyone :)
Nyall
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[Nyall Dawson]

Post by Tim Sutton
Yes I plan to review everything in the changelog over the coming weekend.

As usual just stub in your ideas as entries in the 2.6 changelog or send me
an email if you can't manage the website with any entries to add and I will
review everything to get the writing style consistent, add screenshots
where needed etc.

Thanks Tim - your work on this is really appreciated!

Nyall