QGIS hackfest 2012 (Essen)

07.10.2012 17:52 ·  Notes  ·  qgis, meetings

The 8th QGIS developer meeting, also known as the hackfest, has come to an end.

This time there were no presentations, which had been a feature of the previous two meetings, and this had a positive impact on the results: more than 120 commits were made, and about 60 bug reports were closed. Among the most notable changes:

• support for geometryless tables in WFS data provider
• ability to open layer properties from the Identify Results window
• Atlas plugin integration (tests and documentation included)
• automatic detection of the transparency band for raster layers
• and much more

On top of that:

• system update has been performed on the qgis.org server
• changes to the documentation structure have been agreed upon, and the process of integrating and restructuring the repository has begun
• updated plugin metadata requirements and fixed a number of bugs in the plugins.qgis.org application
• a rating system for plugins has been implemented

According to the participants, this meeting was one of the most productive, which was greatly facilitated by the venue — Villa Vogelsang.