[Development] Documentation of new Qt features in qtdoc

[Edward Welbourne]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 03:11:57PM +0000, Kai Koehne wrote:
>>> Can we agree to document new features in Qt 6.3 and following
>>> released directly in qtdoc.git?

On 20 Nov 2021, at 01:12, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at gmx.de> wrote:
>> won't this cause conflict hell during release finalization? the
>> turnaround time for submitting patches is still quite unreasonable for
>> contended areas.
>>
>> it might work better if the update is done through a single
>> collectively edited change. with gerrit's online editing
>> functionality, this wouldn't even be much more cumbersome than editing
>> the wiki.  that would mean that jani would have post a link to a
>> change he started instead of a wiki page as he did so far.

Volker Hilsheimer (20 November 2021 14:18) wrote:
> I’m in favour of having a single place for the What’s New
> documentation, and the documentation is the right place, so +1 for
> that.
>
> But I share Ossi’s concern. Knowing how many of those changes happen
> late in the process, ending up with lots of them causing constant
> merge conflicts for everyone is going to suck.
>
> So, having a change that everyone can edit using gerrit's web UI is a
> good proposal. +1 to that as well.

All of which is entirely compatible with *also* encouraging folk to
document their new features in qtdoc as part of finishing up the work
itself, to avoid the rush and the scope for collisions in the One Great
Edit shortly before the release.  Documenting it while it's fresh in
your mind generally leads to a better description, after all,

	Eddy.