[Geoserver-devel] Last minute documentation scramble for 2.7.0

Hi all. Jumping on board just prior to the official release of 2.7.0, I'd like to see what needs to be done in the documentation realm.

I'm reading the most recent blog post for RC1, looking for new features that haven't been documented yet. And even though not every paragraph links to docs, docs appear to be there for every top-line feature. (My plan is to go through and review them too.)

But are there any features in 2.7.0 that weren't in the post? If there's anything new that hasn't been documented, is there anyone out there familiar with them who can dash off some content? You don't need to make it look pretty, or even format it Sphinx or anything. I'm happy to curate and put it all together, so you can send me a text file and a few screenshots if you want. I think in most cases it'll be simpler than me asking around trying to figure out how something works.

I'm also happy to volunteer to draft the official 2.7.0 announcement if no one has stepped up yet.
  Thanks,
Mike

Mike Pumphrey
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Thanks Mike,

The WFS 2.0 stored query cascade functionality has some docs (and is worth highlighting with a screen snap in the announcement). We should also be sure to thank Sampo (and Niels who did several reviews). Aside: A tutorial on how to set up a stored query as the functionality is not widely known.

If you could kindly highlight the CSS workshop (thanking appropriate parties) when mentioning the CSS improvements. It may be worth including a CSS example of colour blending in the release announcement.

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On 6 March 2015 at 14:32, Mike Pumphrey <mike@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi all. Jumping on board just prior to the official release of 2.7.0, I’d like to see what needs to be done in the documentation realm.

I’m reading the most recent blog post for RC1, looking for new features that haven’t been documented yet. And even though not every paragraph links to docs, docs appear to be there for every top-line feature. (My plan is to go through and review them too.)

But are there any features in 2.7.0 that weren’t in the post? If there’s anything new that hasn’t been documented, is there anyone out there familiar with them who can dash off some content? You don’t need to make it look pretty, or even format it Sphinx or anything. I’m happy to curate and put it all together, so you can send me a text file and a few screenshots if you want. I think in most cases it’ll be simpler than me asking around trying to figure out how something works.

I’m also happy to volunteer to draft the official 2.7.0 announcement if no one has stepped up yet.

Thanks,
Mike

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Hey Mike (and anyone),

A great way to double-check the tracking done in JIRA is:

$ git log --no-merges --oneline 2.6.0…2.7-RC1

This shows commits in the second branch that aren’t in the first. And skips all those pesky merge msgs…

You can find the non-JIRA tracked ones:

$ git log --no-merges --oneline 2.6.0…2.7-RC1 | grep -v ‘GEOS-[[:digit:]]+’

And the JIRA issues:

$ git log --no-merges --oneline 2.6.0…2.7-RC1 | grep -o ‘GEOS-[[:digit:]]+’ | sort | uniq

From there, you can get the JIRA summaries, if desired (you need the jq binary: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

$ git log --no-merges --oneline 2.6.0…2.7-RC1 | grep -o ‘GEOS-[[:digit:]]+’ | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} curl -s http://jira.codehaus.org/rest/api/2/issue/{} | jq -r ‘.fields.summary’

Friday early evening fun :slight_smile:

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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@anonymised.com> wrote:

Thanks Mike,

The WFS 2.0 stored query cascade functionality has some docs (and is worth highlighting with a screen snap in the announcement). We should also be sure to thank Sampo (and Niels who did several reviews). Aside: A tutorial on how to set up a stored query as the functionality is not widely known.

If you could kindly highlight the CSS workshop (thanking appropriate parties) when mentioning the CSS improvements. It may be worth including a CSS example of colour blending in the release announcement.


Jody


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On 6 March 2015 at 14:32, Mike Pumphrey <mike@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi all. Jumping on board just prior to the official release of 2.7.0, I’d like to see what needs to be done in the documentation realm.

I’m reading the most recent blog post for RC1, looking for new features that haven’t been documented yet. And even though not every paragraph links to docs, docs appear to be there for every top-line feature. (My plan is to go through and review them too.)

But are there any features in 2.7.0 that weren’t in the post? If there’s anything new that hasn’t been documented, is there anyone out there familiar with them who can dash off some content? You don’t need to make it look pretty, or even format it Sphinx or anything. I’m happy to curate and put it all together, so you can send me a text file and a few screenshots if you want. I think in most cases it’ll be simpler than me asking around trying to figure out how something works.

I’m also happy to volunteer to draft the official 2.7.0 announcement if no one has stepped up yet.

Thanks,
Mike

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