Re: ANNOUNCE: OSGEdit 0.3.0

[Jeff Franks <jcf tpg com au>]

Ruben Lopez wrote:

> Wed Nov 13 Rubén López
> 	* Now when picking in the screen, the selection in the GTK tree also
> 	  changes.
>
> Sun Nov 10 Rubén López
> 	* Fixed a bug with the mouse selection, now the selection is
> 	  correctly shown independently of the previous selected node.
> 	* Updated to ShapeDrawable and PrimitiveSet
> 	* Updated galician and spanish translation
>
> Tue Nov 05 Rubén López
> 	* Enhaced mouse selection, now uses similar code than osgGLUT::Viewer
>          to pick up objects. Seems to work great.
>
> Mon Nov 04 Rubén López
> 	* Added mouse selection support!!! It still doesn't work perfectly,
>          but in most cases it does.
>
> Sun Nov 03 Rubén López
> 	* Implemented support for 4 osg Shapes: sphere, box, cylinder and
>          cone
> 	* Changed icons of the shapes to have similar color than others.
>        * Added center-selection tool that centers the camera on the
> selected
>          object
>
> Sat Nov 02 Rubén López
> 	* Added icons for the new osg Shapes :D Still to implement
>
> Tue Oct 29 Rubén López
> 	* Now the selection is shown with both filled polygons and wireframe
>          (thanks to osgscribe example).
> 	* Fixed bug that crashed the app when exiting
>
>
> Mon Oct 28 Rubén López
> 	* Fixed bug when panning, ported to new osg::Geometry API
>          (BIND_PER_PRIMITIVE_SET)
>
> Wed Oct 23 Rubén López
> 	* Ported to gcc 3.2 (fixed problems with localization and some
>          missing std:: namespaces)
>
> Tue Oct 22 Rubén López
> 	* Support for osg 0.9.1cvs LOD min-max ranges
> 	* Ported to osg 0.9.1cvs new API methods
>
> Thu Oct 03 Rubén López
> 	* Added Anisotropy level to texture editor
> 	* Added a checkbox to the light source for "directional light"
>
> Wed Oct 02 Rubén López
> 	* Now user can select between orthogonal and perspective view.
>
> Thu Sep 26 Rubén López
> 	* Added axis to selected object, to know its center and in the
>          future support moving/scaling only in one of the axis.
>
> Tue Sep 24 Rubén López
> 	* Increased orbitation speed.
>
> Sun Sep 22 Rubén López
> 	* Semi-fixed a bug when trying to use materials/textures without
> 	  selected node. Pending to fix completely, the window sill appear.
> 	* Now for loaded models the file path is taken into account to show
> 	  the texture images.
>
> Mon Sep 16 Rubén López
> 	* Implemented Save as, and made Save work as expected, saving to the
> 	  last filename opened or saved.
>
> Sun Sep 15 Rubén López
> 	* Rotations didn't used the parents node transform, now do
> 	* Resolved a bug when deleting nodes that are repeated in the same
>          subtree.
> 	* Now user can move the camera with the new orbit button
>
> Fri Sep 13 Rubén López ** 0.2.2 release **
> 	* Finished the selection support
> 	* Now transformations applied to children are corrected taking into
>          account transformations that will be applied later by parents
>
> Sat Aug 31 Rubén López
> 	* Ported to OSG 0.9.1 (changed osg::Texture to osg::Texture2D)
>
> Sat Aug 24 Rubén López
> 	* Now can specify a model to load in commandline.
>
> Thu Aug 22 Rubén López
> 	* Added support for editing textures (only image and mapping
>          attributes, not UV coordinates)
>
> Tue Aug 20 Rubén López
> 	* Updated all Transform's to MatrixTransform to follow the new OSG
> 	  API.
> 	* Now material editing is supported
>
> Wed Aug 07 Rubén López ** 0.2.0 release **
> 	* Now supports preferences of billboards, LOD's and LightSources
> 	* Fixed a bug that caused osgedit to die when deleting nodes.
> 	* Update properties on each command executed
> 	* Modify only the part of the tree that have changed, not all in 
>          order to avoid the collapse of the whole tree.
>
>
> Mon Aug 05 Rubén López 
> 	* Added GL_NORMALIZE as a property (per-node), so only transform
>          nodes which had been scaled have GL_NORMALIZE enabled.
>
> Sun Aug 04 Rubén López 
> 	* New design implemented, now almost all that worked before works
> 	  again. Still to implement the new properties.
> 	* Added also Billboard and LightSource to list of supported nodes.
> 	* Fixed a bug with the grid, that didn't rotated to match the
> 	  camera selection.
>
> Thu Aug 01 Rubén López ** 0.1.1 release **
> 	* Released 0.1.1 version
> 	* Added Flat/Smooth shading selection
> 	* Added Solid/Wireframe polygon mode selection
>
> Thu Aug 01 Ricardo Rodriguez
> 	* Redesigned the system for flexibility
>
> Wed Jul 31 Rubén López
> 	* Fixed a bug in the four default views
> 	* Added grid
> 	* Added USER view (not configurable yet)
> 	* OsgTreeModel now is an abstract class (less dependency on GTK ->
>          faster compilation).
>
> Tue Jul 30 Rubén López
> 	* Added glEnable(GL_NORMALIZE) in the main() to avoid normals
> 	  corruption when scaling objects.
> 	* Added icons to the tree showing the node types.
>
> Mon Jul 29 Rubén López
> 	* First public release, 0.1.0
>        * Galician & Spanish translations
>
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Please don't post a ChangeLog  to gnome-announce. It is most annoying to 
have to read through a ChangeLog trying to work out what your program is 
and does. No one will bother. The gnome-announce list is for users and 
hackers, with many users not being gnome hackers and with no idea what a 
ChageLog is.

An announcement needs to follow the following format:

Application
===========

OSGEdit 0.1.0

Description
===========

Description of what OSGEdit is and does.


Enhancements
============

Enhancements in this version compared with the previous version

Download
========

Download URL where interested people can download your program

My advice is - when you make a release DO NOT CHECK THE "MAKE GNOME 
ANNOUNCEMENT CHECKBOX" at the bottom of the release page unless you 
follow the above format. I originally did the same thing and what you 
get is a meaning less ChangeLog like your announcement. I expect you 
will get a lot of complaints, I did.

Jeff Franks.