astropy/astropy — pull request #578 by iguananaut (2012-12-21 00:41:18+00:00)
Title: Add a 'what's new' section to the documentation

Every Python release (and I can think of other projects as well) have a "What's New" section in their documentation that's updated with every non-bugfix release. For example: http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html

It contains some overlap with the changelog, but contains only the highlights, and goes into more detail on some of those highlights. This may include code samples and even micro-tutorials on new features. It should be a place to quickly convince users why they should be excited about the new release.

Another reason to have this is that if we do any pre-final releases (for example 0.2rc1) the changelog for version 0.2 will only list what changed between 0.2rc1 and 0.2. It's really meant more for developers while the What's New page is for users.

I'll go ahead and get this started and then make sure I get everyone who's contributed major work to add to it.