[Qgis-psc] QGIS grants?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks Nyall, awesome.

All the best.


Il 09/21/2018 04:15 AM, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 16:52, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Il 09/13/2018 08:37 AM, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
>>> Will do -- can it wait till after freeze please? I don't have a moment
>>> to spare before that!
>> sure, take your time!
>> anyway, a simple "xx% completed" would be enough for now, just to know
>> the general situation.
> Ok, thanks for the understanding!
>
> In regards to my two grants:
>
> Processing GUI and maintenance work:
>
> - Many bugs in the QGIS 3rd party providers have been fixed, with lots
> of new unit tests added. I've cleared out most of the outstanding
> issues against the SAGA provider (in most cases adding one or more
> test cases for these). I've also refactored the GDAL algorithm tests
> to test the GDAL command generated instead of the resultant output.
> This allows for much easier test creation (and there's now dozens of
> tests covering most of the GDAL algorithms, with tests for all the
> individual parameter options for these), and is much easier to detect
> when things go wrong vs the old approach of testing the created files.
> This also means we're no longer testing GDAL's operation itself, just
> making sure that what QGIS sends to GDAL is correct (so the tests are
> more robust against different GDAL versions). Additionally, lots of
> GRASS unit tests which were disabled in the lead-up to 3.0 have been
> resurrected, and we now test have some GRASS vector algorithms unit
> tests too. I'll continue to track the different channels for bug
> reports against individual algorithms and fix these.
>
> - The GUI refactoring has proceeded nicely, with the new c++ classes
> and framework in place for QGIS 3.4. This new framework is soaked in
> unit tests. So far the string, CRS and boolean parameters have been
> ported to the new API, with numeric and distance parameters ported in
> a (currently unmerged) PR. The new API brings many improvements
> besides the added stability, and should make it easier to utilise
> expression-based parameter values within models and make support for
> these automatic for all ported parameter types (vs lots of
> duplicate/fragile code in the older Python implementations). The
> porting work will continue during freeze and 3.6 (next up are the
> file, range and expression parameter widgets).
>
> The R Provider resurrection work will commence shortly, during the 3.4
> feature freeze period and the new plugin will be targeted to launch at
> the same time as 3.4 final.
>
> Nyall

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