QGIS hackfest 2013 (Valmiera)

16.04.2013 12:54 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, meetings

The 9th QGIS developer meeting in Valmiera (Latvia) has come to an end.

Since the QGIS code is already frozen (with some caveats), almost all of the commits were aimed at fixing bugs, improving stability, and shaping the new API.

It’s a thankless task to list everyone by name, there are no idlers at hackfests. I’ll just go through the things that interest me personally (and that affect me to a greater or lesser extent):

• Radim continued to improve the raster subsystem (in particular, he fixed a number of problems with the handling of NODATA values)
• Jürgen, as always, fixed bug after bug, and also worked on support for different encodings (yes, yes, Frank’s commit to GDAL will have long-lasting consequences)
• Borys worked on the new plugin installer
• Victor and I worked on SEXTANTE: fixing bugs, writing new tests, updating documentation and help files
• Werner, Paolo, Otto, Larissa, Raymond worked on the user manual, cleaning up the wiki and migrating the website

In addition, all hackfest participants were very active in discussing a range of issues:

• implementation of GRASS raster algorithms
• the documentation creation and translation process
• SEXTANTE’s new features and architecture
• PSC structure and role
• new plugin installer
• new website
• and other issues

The next developer meeting is scheduled for September (earlier than usual) and will be held in Brighton, UK.