QGIS hackfest 2011 (Lisbon)
18.04.2011 10:17 · GIS · qgis, meetings
The 5th QGIS developer meeting, which according to the QGIS Wiki gathered 28 people in Lisbon (Portugal), is coming to an end. It is time to summarise the results and share impressions.
Unfortunately, I was not able to attend in person and had to participate virtually again.
As the code and strings are currently frozen, people have mainly been fixing bugs and cleaning up the bug tracker. No new functionality (at least visible to normal users) has been added.
Most of the first day was spent getting things up and running, with more or less active work only starting on Friday evening. Saturday, however, was a real blast: in addition to closing tickets and fixing bugs, several presentations were given:
- Martin Dobias demonstrated the QGIS FileBrowser data management application. It is similar to ArcCatalog in some ways, but all such applications look pretty much the same
- Radim Blazek presented the QGIS Customisation project, which allows you to flexibly customise the QGIS interface and save those changes to a file for use on other machines
- Jean-Roc Morreale spoke about the French version of the QGIS User Guide, which is available in printed form via the Print-On-Demand (PoD) service. It is expected that all translations of the User Guide and other documentation will be distributed using this technology in the future
- Vincent Picavet showed the Rumbler plugin, which allows you to add new layers to QGIS directly from PgAdmin
- there was a small demo of the DTClassifier plugin I’m currently working on. This plugin is being developed for a forestry monitoring project and provides image classification and change detection functionality
- Julien Malik spoke for more than an hour about OrfeoToolbox and the prospects of its integration with QGIS
We also discussed many other topics, including migrating to Git, starting a new plugins repository, further development of QGIS, and redesigning the user interface.
Some numbers. At the time of writing: 64 issues closed, 59 commits made, 26 new issues opened. By the way, the bug #7 has been fixed, and the place of the oldest issue now belongs to #40.
In my opinion, this hackfest was a bit sluggish and not as lively as the previous ones. I hope that the feature freeze is to blame and that the next meeting (in autumn in Switzerland) will be more active.