[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] [Feature request] Changelog (Issue #5950)

[Minh Nguyễn]

1ec5 left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5950)

Yes, I’m looking into starting a series of posts on the forum periodically highlighting noteworthy changes as they go in, similar to what I’ve been doing for OpenHistoricalMap. These won’t technically be release notes, since this project uses a continuous deployment model.

Separately, some OSM-related projects [maintain running “changelogs”](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) that are more like draft release notes. In principle, the document could be divided by month rather than release. In iD and related projects, we’ve been discussing the best way to manage these documents. iD’s changelog has gotten so long that GitHub sometimes breaks down trying to render it. Drafting updates at release time slows down the release process, sometimes by days, but the running changelog concept hasn’t really worked out either, since most contributors don’t bother writing their own blurbs (and there’s a whole issue around merge conflicts if they do).

All of this is to say: let’s start with high-level updates outside the repo for now, and see how it goes. Look for an announcement probably next week tied to this discussion. 🙂

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