Reminder: write release notes about your nice work

[Olivier Hallot]

Very appropriate reminder.

For documentation purposes this is critical. A terse report does not 
always ring a bell to the community or the people in charge of adding 
contents in Help or guides. Not to say about the marketing comm business.

Also, release notes added *after* the software release is not good at all.

Cheers
Olivier

On 5/20/25 05:03, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> Beta1 for 25.8 will be released in a couple of weeks, so I thought to 
> bring this up. In April, I added over thirty entries to release notes 
> wiki pages. I didn't artificially try to inflate that number, they were 
> all noteworthy items, which is rather cool. While I combine the work 
> with the monthly QA report research, it is still a bit distracting and 
> it would be good to have them written by the developers themselves. I 
> also don't really have the energy to create screenshots as part of this 
> work.
> 
> We have guidelines that include instructions on what to do and how: 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/Guidelines
> 
> The release notes page for 25.8: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ 
> ReleaseNotes/25.8
> 
> To new developers: you can log into the wiki using your single sign-on 
> account that you created for getting access to Gerrit.
> 
> The goal is to include as many items as we can before marking the page 
> for translation with the beta1 release.
> 
> Ilmari

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