SUG: 26.1

[gzotti]

Description

This provides a new foreword for V26.1 and a skeletal chapter on the SkyCultureMaker plugin to be still completed.

Fixes # (issue)

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Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• This change requires a documentation update
• Housekeeping

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• My code follows the code style of this project.
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have updated the respective chapter in the Stellarium User Guide
• My changes generate no new warnings
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules

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Files matching guide/**:

• Did you remember to update screenshots to match new updates?
• Did you remember to grammar check in changed part of documentation?

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[gzotti]

@sushoff I hope you can describe the plugin in 1-2 pages for prospective users.

[sushoff]

done (yesterday)

[alex-w]

Is it ready to review?

[gzotti]

Review/modify: yes. I hope my expression of concern is OK for you all. Merge: please not yet, we should finalize all questions regarding the SCM first. When would you create the SUG for 26.1? Is Friday enough?

[sushoff]

I haven't included the Sky Culture Explorer (SCE) yet - only the mere SCM from last year's students. Sorry, I am very occupied currently - I hope that Youla or myself could create new test SCs soon using the geo-menu ... I need find time to catch up with all changes you recommented him to make, but I trust it will be better

[gzotti]

I am just adding info on territory.geojson in ch.9 and then the new selection GUI. I am pretty sure I will not catch all details, but of course the SUG 26.2 will welcome those. Without map polygons (territory files) for the existing SCs the new map feature is unfortunately of limited use currently, but "we are hopefully evolving", right?

[gzotti]

@alex-w @sushoff objections? Given that the map is of minimal use now, a better description can IMO wait for 26.2.

[10110111]

view_dialog_skyculture_tab.png‎ is outdated. Same about the map screenshot.