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Krita release notes are superb studies in how to create software product pages: lots of context, plenty of examples, clear explanations, both features and benefits, thanks and credits, and call outs to real world users.

https://krita.org/en/krita-5-0-release-notes/

Kudos to the Krita team for the great upgrade.




Those release notes are a project in their own right. You need a team just for that!


They were written by pretty much one person, who also fixes bugs, maintains the manual and help out the maintainer -- me -- with any tasks needed. We usually start the release notes for the next major version right after we released a major version, and try to keep up with what happens.

Upcoming Krita 5.1, that what's currently in the master branch on invent.kde.org, already has a bunch of new stuff...


We sponsor Ramon Miranda, a professional digital artist and art teacher, to create the content for the Krita youtube channel.

(Not sure why that post didn't have a reply link...)


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That's great that your Open Source project can sponsor contributors!


I like the business model, where MS Store users (and Steam, Epic, Google) pay $10USD and linux users just DL for free.


"We usually start the release notes for the next major version right after we released a major version, and try to keep up with what happens" That is a best practice right there, and I've long been an advocate of 'continuous documentation' because it's actually less work per unit of quality over time.


What about all the YouTube content?




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