[Qgis-psc] Successful QGIS Grant Proposals

[Nyall Dawson]

On 8 January 2018 at 06:21, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> Hi All
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> As recipients of last year’s grant proposals, could I ask you all to submit a short (1 paragraph with a screen shot if appropriate) summary of the status of your grant work. We will compile all the reports into a blog article for http://blog.qgis.org.
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Right, here's North Road's:

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ADD CONSISTENCY TO UI CONTROLS
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As proposed, we've unified all the various opacity, rotation and scale
controls to use the same terminology and numeric scales. We've also
updated ALL methods for setting opacity, rotation and scale within the
PyQGIS API to use consistent naming and arguments, making the API more
predictable and easy to use. Lastly, we've also added a new reusable
opacity widget (QgsOpacityWidget) to the GUI library so that future
code can (and 3rd party scripts and plugins) can follow the new UI
conventions for opacity handling.


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EXTEND UNIT TEST COVERAGE FOR GEOMETRY CLASSES
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As proposed, we've extended the unit testing coverage for all the
underlying geometry primitive classes (points, lines, polygons,
curves, collections, etc) so that all these classes have as close to
100% unit test coverage as possible. In the process, we identified and
fixed dozens of bugs in the geometry library, and naturally added
additional unit tests to avoid regressions in future releases. As a
result QGIS' core geometry engine is much more stable. Furthermore, we
utilised the additional test coverage to allow us to safely refactor
some of the slower geometry operations, meaning that many geometry
heavy operations will perform much faster in QGIS 3.0.


Done! Bring on the next round! ;)

Nyall