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by jph 1640 days ago
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.

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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...)

(meta: replying to a comment is disabled for a short period, which increases depending on depth of discussion or something like that, in an attempt to reduce unproductive back-and-forth argument)
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?