[Qgis-psc] Sponsored fix report for 2.12

[Giovanni Manghi]

Many thanks to Nyall and everyone else involved in the bug fixing effort!

cheers!

-- G --



On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi PSC,
>
> I've just submitted what I think is the last of my fixes for the 2.12
> release (pending any overnight super-blockers being reported!)
>
> Here's a summary of what I did during this time. Note that this is a
> bit messy, since it includes both the sponsored fixes + a considerable
> amount of extra volunteer time. But hey, I want to see a good release
> ;)
>
> - Sweep of all changed dialogs, ensuring tab order is correct
> - UNREPORTED: Only save effect element if it is non-default (decreases
> size of qgs project files)*
> - HIGH: Fix map rotation not considered for ellipse marker data
> defined rotation (#13367)
> - HIGH: Maintain order of recent expressions (#13461)
> - NORMAL: Make sure recent expression group is always listed last (#13462)
> - NORMAL: [diagrams] Fix initial value of transparency slider not set (#13434)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix potential crashes in renderer widgets
> - NORMAL: Fix legends are empty if presets used with filtered legend (#13300)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix crashes and inconsistent ui when atlas is set to a
> geometryless layer
> - BLOCKER: Fix diagrams are always shown, regardless of setting (#13501)
> - BLOCKER: Fix fill ring tool used with advanced digitising crashes
> QGIS (#13355)
> - NORMAL: Fix add ring/fill ring tool works on first polygon (#13069)
> - BLOCKER: Fix missing sip bindings for renderers (fix #13545)
> - BLOCKER: Fix crash in label property dialog (#13543)
> - NORMAL: Fix hardcoded border for raster legend items (fix #13540)
> - BLOCKER: Fix symbols drawn multiple times in rule based renderer if
> symbol (#13220)
> - BLOCKER: Use a model for node editor table, fixed hang when node
> tool used on large feature (#13541)
> - BLOCKER: Fix node tool duplicates nodes when topological editing and
> snap are both enabled (#13466)
> - NORMAL: Fix broken data defined SVG marker outline width (#13423)
> - HIGH: Scale svg marker outline width to match context (#11522)
> - HIGH: Allow coloring of svg markers and svg fills when used with
> graduated/categorised renderers (#11658)
> - HIGH: Fix svg outline widths are incorrectly scaled (#11522)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix snapping options dialog not correctly initialised
> when loading projects
> - UNREPORTED: Fix uninitialized variables in advanced digitizing dock
> which meant that sometimes advanced digitising tools would be
> activated unexpectedly
> - NORMAL: Fix curved labels ignore line orientation placement flag (f#5778)
> - UNREPORTED: [console] Move run button earlier in console editor
> toolbar (prevents it being hidden in overflow menu on small screens)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix fill and outline color for svg markers sometimes
> enabled even though SVG file does not support parameters
> - UNREPORTED: Fix svg marker colors not correctly restored from project
> - UNREPORTED: If svg files with params do not have a default value
> set, then don't reset the fill/border color and border width when
> changing svg marker/svg fill SVG files (made the behaviour consistent
> between the svg marker and the other marker symbols)
> - NORMAL: Fix svg symbols are shown in white and hard to see in svg
> picker (#10908)
> - NORMAL: Fix refining rule based renderer using expression (#10815)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix crash when changing symbol types on windows
> - BLOCKER: Fix split parts tool only leaves one of the newly created
> parts (#13421)
> - BLOCKER: Fix using add part tool to add part to geometryless rows
> (#12885, #11319)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix some potential crashes with edit tools and null geometry
> - UNREPORTED (thought I'd submitted this years ago but can't find the
> issue now): Allow adding features with empty geometry via attribute
> table
> - HIGH: Allow delete part tool to remove geometry from single type
> point and line layers (#13258)
> - LOW: Fix overview canvas background color not set (#11157)
> - Add some unit tests for QgsWKBTypes
> - NORMAL: When adding ring to a geometry, add z or m dimensions to the
> ring geometry if required (#7400, #7401)
> - NORMAL: Also show features with modified geometry when "show edited
> and new features" filter is active in attribute dialog (#11684)
> - BLOCKER: Fix broken apply button in label config dialog (#13543)
> - BLOCKER: Fix area calculation when OTF active and no ellipsoid, add
> unit test (#13601)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix exporting geometry collections to WKT would result
> in invalid WKT
> - UNREPORTED: Fix unable to import WKT using MultiPoint(1 1,2 2,...) format
> - UNREPORTED: Fix GeometryCollection WKT to support collections with
> multi* children and GeometryCollection children (allowed by spec)
> - Add a bunch of unit tests to geometry
> - UNREPORTED: Fix calculation of area and length of mixed geometry collections
> - UNREPORTED: Fix geometry casting in python bindings (missing
> MultiLineString and GeometryCollection casts)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix calculation of length/perimeter for geometry collections
> - UNREPORTED: when creating geometry from WKT, upgrade dimensionality
> of geometry if coordinates are 3/4 dimensional
> - UNREPORTED: match dimensionality of collections to child dimensionality
> - UNREPORTED: fix area of curves was non-zero if curve is closed
> - UNREPORTED: don't consider m values when testing for curve closedness
> - NORMAL: Fix merge attributes tool sets skipped attributes to null (#13231)
> - NORMAL: Add skip all option to merge attributes dialog (#6958)
> - UNREPORTED: Fix QgsStatisticalSummary sometimes returning 0 for
> StDevSample stat
> - UNREPORTED: Fix storing string representations of doubles in an int
> field results in NULL rather than converting value to int
> - NORMAL: Fix merge attributes/features tool resets values to null for
> int fields and add a warning if merged attribute value is not
> compatible with field type (#12842)
> - Fix a LOT of leaks relating to geometry and GEOS operations, labeling
> - UNREPORTED: [pal] Fix regression in placement for free/horizontal
> polygon labels
> - Add tooltips to advanced digitizing dock
> - Fix a crash in filtered legends
> - Reviewed and merged several bug fix PRs
>
> So basically I concentrated mainly on blocking geometry, labeling and
> digitising issues, and just generally cleaning up regressions in the
> editing tools. I still need to backport a lot of these fixes to 2.8,
> but I'll wait till after release for that.
>
> Thanks for sponsoring me again this cycle - I really enjoyed this
> work, and I think 2.12 is in good shape for release. Fingers crossed
> nothing has escaped our testing!
>
> Nyall
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