[Qgis-developer] [QGIS Server] Maintain it and create a team

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi René-Luc

Thanks, better to have it on the mailing list than with the github comments.

Well, taking the constructive parts out of that discussion, I think it 
makes sense to take the opportunity to rewrite the server part 
completely (it will be a while until there are the same number of 
features as now )

Also, the code sould be moved it to a separate repo / project. The QGIS 
codebase is quite bloated now and move code out of if will be good. QGIS 
server is like a third party application using the core API.

 >We would like to raise interest around QGIS Server, and report here 
that this part of QGIS is really used in production by companies and 
research centers, and maintained by some devs, and not >just a QGIS side 
project "for fun".

Yes of course. Well, it can be used in production and be fun at the same 
time.

 >* Who is interested in participating in  QGIS Server (code, ideas, 
review, tests) ?

Sourcepole is of course also interested in a working server for version3 
and to have a working group for it.

Regards,
Marco



On 09/23/16 14:45, René-Luc Dhont wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> The Qt4 and Python 2.7 is going away from QGIS master, following this PR:
> Require python 3 and qt5 https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3510
>
> But a part of the project directly suffered of this: QGIS Server. As 
> explain on the Pull Request 'Require python 3 and qt5', all the QGIS 
> Server tests has been disabled. This means that QGIS Server is not 
> maintained with automatic tests for QGIS 3.
>
> So Mathias Khun has opened an issue about QGIS 3 API to remove QGIS 
> Server from QGIS master.
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/63
> The discussion is opened but I don't know if all the developpers are 
> aware of this.
>
> For our team, 3Liz (Michaël, David and I), the QGIS Server is a big 
> part of the QGIS project and it will really be a pitty if it 
> disappears. A part of the QGIS users are interesting in it because 
> they can published web services directly from their work. So QGIS 
> Server is a reason for them to use QGIS. Many users like the part of 
> using QGIS desktop to configure easily many options for publication, 
> and use WMS, WFS, WCS and event WPS with different clients (one of 
> them is Lizmap).
> We take much time (and about half of it without funds) to keep this 
> feature alive and up to date with QGIS improvements, and are willing 
> to continue down this path (we believe in it and have many good 
> feedbacks from users)
>
> We would like to raise interest around QGIS Server, and report here 
> that this part of QGIS is really used in production by companies and 
> research centers, and maintained by some devs, and not just a QGIS 
> side project "for fun".
>
> We just discussed with Alessandro Pasotti and we would like to create 
> a team to maintain and discuss about the evolution of QGIS Server. We 
> would like to use this opportunity to improve QGIS Server and make it 
> more maintainable and granular.
>
> Some questions to gather reactions :
> * Who is interested in maintaining QGIS Server ?
> * Who is interested in participating in  QGIS Server (code, ideas, 
> review, tests) ?
> * Please share any ideas to enhance (refactor) QGIS Server
>
> Regards,
> René-Luc D'Hont
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Sourcepole -  Linux & Open Source Solutions
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Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee