Re: [Qgis-developer] Virtual layers for QGIS

2015-07-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 for me. A good feature IMO. I think so of the UI needs work but that is easy enough to do after merge. On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 6:17 pm Hugo Mercier hugo.merc...@oslandia.com wrote: Hi all, Probably not the perfect timing, but anyway, I would like to move forward on that topic of virtual

Re: [Qgis-developer] Is the new release schedule a success?

2015-07-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Which is why we had a 2.8.1 not too long after proving the point of those releases. The one and only solution is more testing, there is no magic fix to any of this. Raising testing awareness and money is a good start. On Wed, 1 Jul 2015 10:22 pm Tom Chadwin tom.chad...@nnpa.org.uk wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Is the new release schedule a success?

2015-06-30 Thread Nathan Woodrow
That is very good to hear indeed. In the end I think this just comes with the nature of the business. We never had fully bug fix releases however I do think the new release cycle is better then just waiting, waiting longer just pushing the pain out to the future. I think it all comes down to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Change vector layer data source

2015-06-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Andreas, That is a API only change the moment for vector layers only. There was a bug in the method which Nyall has fixed in the last few days so you might be on a older version. Regards, Nathan On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [Qgis-developer] Potentially serious performance regression in new geometry - should 2.10 be delayed?

2015-06-22 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 to full postpone for me. I don't like the idea of shipping something that is slower and snapping is slow. Those are core features of a GIS. Nathan On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 3:22 pm Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 June 2015 at 13:42, Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: One

Re: [Qgis-developer] ELSE expression is used when other rules are set not visible - Feature or Bug?

2015-06-19 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I would say they are getting skipped in the rule check so fall into the else rule. On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 9:05 pm Alexandre Neto senhor.n...@gmail.com wrote: Using the rule-based symbology with several rules and an ELSE expression. If you, in map canvas legend, set a rule layer to invisible, all

Re: [Qgis-developer] Network analysis

2015-06-18 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Thanks a lot everyone. Don't need it for a project at the moment but looking around for a client. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Mark Wynter m...@dimensionaledge.com wrote: I'd also recommend igraph. Description below describes how I'm using igraph (cut and paste from an earlier private

[Qgis-developer] Network analysis

2015-06-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, Has anyone done or know any good tools for doing network analysis in QGIS. Stuff like finding downstream nodes on pipes, turning off switches to see downstream effects? I know there is a network x library for Python which might be able to do it however I can't seem to find it. I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing a new chat room for QGIS at https://gitter.im/qgis

2015-06-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
to limit what apps have access to your organisations. On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 at 18:17 Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 at 18:12 Tim Sutton t...@qgis.org wrote: Hi On 13 Jun 2015, at 15:02, Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:37:05PM

Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing a new chat room for QGIS at https://gitter.im/qgis

2015-06-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think organization data is public anyway in terms of which ones you are part of. On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 6:02 pm Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:37:05PM +0700, Tim Sutton wrote: https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS This new chat system

Re: [Qgis-developer] Testing a new chat room for QGIS at https://gitter.im/qgis

2015-06-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 at 18:12 Tim Sutton t...@qgis.org wrote: Hi On 13 Jun 2015, at 15:02, Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:37:05PM +0700, Tim Sutton wrote: https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS This new chat system forces you to create

Re: [Qgis-developer] Failing tests

2015-06-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I'm all for strict unit test policy however they need to be able to run on all platforms consistently in order to enforce that correctly. Taking the failing PyQgsAppStartup test on Travis, i just ran it on my Linux setup and it passes fine, yet fails on Travis. I'm skeptical of that test anyway

Re: [Qgis-developer] Failing tests

2015-06-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I'm currently looking at how to fix PyQgsAppStartup but at the moment I'm not sure why it is failing given that it works on the command line normally. On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 at 11:33 Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com wrote: Hi On 02 Jun 2015, at 02:24, Matthias Kuhn matth...@opengis.ch wrote: Hi,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Value map behaviour for data entry and display

2015-05-18 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I agree. The current behavior is the correct one. If you need to see the values just add them to your description (maybe we can have that as a auto option) - Nathan On Mon, 18 May 2015 at 17:01 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: Hi Paolo, On Sun, 17. May 2015 at 22:27:03 +0200, Paolo

Re: [Qgis-developer] Rendering active map symbol as QPixmap

2015-05-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Andrew, This is how I did it with Roam to get all the legend items for the layer: items = layer.rendererV2().legendSymbologyItems(ICON_SIZE) That will give you a list of:Text - Icon pairs if you are using the rule base renderer you get can the symbol for the rule and paint that into a

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to set the PyQGIS environnement on Windows properly?

2015-05-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, This is what I use for everything that I have setup: @ECHO OFF REM --- REM Change %OSGEO4W_ROOT% in setenv.bat to change in the location of QGIS. REM

[Qgis-developer] 2.8.2?

2015-04-27 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Sorry to be a pain in the butt but do we have a update on when we could expect a 2.8.2 release? I see a lot of emails of late all hitting the bugs that have been fixed for this release. - Nathan ___ Qgis-developer mailing list

Re: [Qgis-developer] Force canvas to predefined scales : help needed to improve a script

2015-04-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
def __init__( self, *predefinedScales ): and you can do this forcedScale(25000, 5, 10) On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 at 22:30 kimaidou kimai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Improve version here: https://gist.github.com/mdouchin/72a09b629a5557c1dc1c with: * replayed variable to avoid probable

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to load a QLR file with pyQGIS ?

2015-04-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, QLR files are not style files they can't be loaded like that. Unfortunately the API for loading a QLR is broken in 2.8.1 but will be fixed in 2.8.2, however the logic isn't very complex and you can translate it to Python from C++. The source is here

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to load a QLR file with pyQGIS ?

2015-04-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Ok but your said QLR in your message hence my answer. Natham On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 5:35 pm Geo DrinX geodr...@gmail.com wrote: QLR files are not style files I am trying with a .qml file, but the result is the same : no style applied using a CSV and python. Instead, if I use SHP and

Re: [Qgis-developer] Python - granular access to rules in rule-based renderer

2015-04-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Tom, Don't use regex. You are in for a world of pain if you go that way, and not the kind of pain you feel good about after. I will have a better method for you soon. - Nathan On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 at 20:20 Tom Chadwin tom.chad...@nnpa.org.uk wrote: I'm implementing rule-based rendering

Re: [Qgis-developer] Thoughts about multi-type tables in QGIS

2015-04-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I would not be in favour of supporting a many geometry type per layer type setup, it just makes things a heap more complicated IMO for little gain. Also makes your code a lot more complicated, you now have to check each geometry for type because you are never sure what you will get. MapInfo did

Re: [Qgis-developer] Open a project file programmatically

2015-03-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
http://qgis.org/api/classQgisInterface.html#ac23b3947fa382bf08a5f0164bac8b053 - nathan On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 7:16 pm Olivier Dalang olivier.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ! I'm trying to load a project file using python in a plugin, but am encountering some problems. I simply want to have

Re: [Qgis-developer] How to store a QIcon in QGIS project file?

2015-03-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Germán, What is the purpose of being able to set different group icons? - Nathan On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 at 02:06 Germán Carrillo carrillo.ger...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I'd like to add a Set Group Icon... action to the context menu for groups in the layer tree. I'm preparing a pull

Re: [Qgis-developer] american fuzzy lop

2015-03-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
What does that even do? On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 at 16:52 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Hi all. Anybody knows about this? http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ Would it make sense to try and include it in our tests? All the best. -- http://faunalia.eu/ Sent from mobile, sorry for

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.8 'Wien'

2015-03-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Thanks Jurgen. On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 at 22:55 Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.8 'Wien'. Wien is German for 'Vienna' - host

Re: [Qgis-developer] LTR

2015-03-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Jurgen, That sounds really good to me. The auto release based on silence in the branch sounds like a good idea. Given that this is the first time we have done this I think we will just need to iron out any issues as we find them, hard to get things right on the first run. - Nathan On Mon,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Print composer font pickers are broken

2015-02-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Sandro, Don't stress. These things can happen now and then. There where other things that happened that needed to be fixed for a 2.8.1 release anyway so it wasn't just your fix. - Nathan On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 at 22:14 Sandro Mani manisan...@gmail.com wrote: As the author of that commit I'm

Re: [Qgis-developer] hub.qgis under heavy load?

2015-02-12 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Attachments is really all you would loose, but that isn't a big thing. You can also just setup sub-tags for different things, eg. platform\windows, platform\osx, etc. Personally I think it would be a good move. - Nathan On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 11:24:05 PM Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it

Re: [Qgis-developer] Visual changelog for 2.8

2015-02-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hmm I'm not sure that site is working right. I'm the same as Anita. I can only see a hand full of items most of the time and only in thumb view, all the others are empty. Tim do you know what might be going on? - Nathan On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 4:08:31 AM Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS and Coverity scans

2015-02-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Thanks to Jürgen and Martin's assistance And yours of course. This is some great stabilization to the product. - Natahn On Wed Feb 11 2015 at 9:13:32 PM Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If you've been following recent git commits, you'll have noticed a lot of Coverity

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS and Coverity scans

2015-02-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I am curious about Coverity. AFAIK, the static analyzer is not open source, right ? So this works as long as they offer if freely for open source projects. Right. It's propietary. And IMHO it's also a heavy depencency Not sure I find that to be much of a issue. Use what ever works, it

Re: [Qgis-developer] Visual changelog for 2.8

2015-02-03 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Thanks for bringing that up Anita I had forgotten. Will start adding stuff as soon as I can. - Nathan On Wed Feb 04 2015 at 8:11:12 AM Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net wrote: On 03-02-15 22:39, Anita Graser wrote: Hi, Do we use http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/list/

Re: [Qgis-developer] Call for applications and funding for paid bug fixing for QGIS releases

2015-01-29 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Tim, DMS has said they are happy to let me spend a few work days next month on bug fixing for the release. - Nathan On Wed Jan 28 2015 at 7:52:09 AM Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com wrote: Dear QGIS Developer Community QGIS 2.8 is drawing close and we would like to use some of our QGIS funds

Re: [Qgis-developer] What's the purpose of an LTR?

2015-01-21 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yes and also that we will back port fixes for a year to that release vs only for the current release. The QEP will have more details. Nathan On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 6:24 pm G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Could you help me to understand what distinguishes a normal QGIS release and an LTR?

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin repo: status

2015-01-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
What legal issues? - Nathan On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 9:36 pm Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paolo, 2015-01-20 12:26 GMT+02:00 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it: * one (tile map scale) is queued just because of possible legal issues of older versions (new ones are clean)

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP and PR for new Authentication Configuration System

2015-01-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Anyone have any ideas on who a good person to review this kind of code? - Nathan On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Larry Shaffer lar...@dakotacarto.com wrote: Hi, I have drafted a QEP [0] for the introduction of a new authentication configuration system that is protected with a master

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-psc] Clarification of outcome of PSC meeting 16/1

2015-01-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
If we are planning on doing a 3.0 I think it really needs to come with Python 3 and Qt5 on all platforms (We can't have Python 2.7 and Python 3, that is just going to lead to more pain I think). This is going to break all the plugins again, are we sure we can do that at this time? If so we need

Re: [Qgis-developer] [Qgis-psc] Clarification of outcome of PSC meeting 16/1

2015-01-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
We have a import hook in place so it would be possible to have just import PyQt and handle which version is imported on our side however this is a bit magic and I'm not sure many people would like it. Stuff like this also breaks tooling because there is no PyQt module so most auto complete will

Re: [Qgis-developer] Downloading compiling QGIS

2015-01-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Zoltan, Jump on IRC is normally a good way if you have trouble with building. Some of us normally hang around there, or of course you can still email the mailing list. - Nathan On Tue Jan 13 2015 at 18:40:15 Zoltan Szecsei zolt...@geograph.co.za wrote: Hi Matthias Thanks for the

Re: [Qgis-developer] git ignores

2015-01-03 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Don't build in the source tree ;p I just put it all under a build folder ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

2014-12-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I agree with Paolo, and also see the value of Sandro's argument that developing such functionality in a branch get's much less testing/viewing and is very hard to merge back. Myself I only had a serious look at it when it was in master... Sometimes it's not about other people testing, sometimes

Re: [Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

2014-12-22 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Sandro, Am I reading this as you are not doing any more rotation work? Are you planning on fixing the bugs opened against the feature? On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 9:02 pm Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 09:07:32AM +, Ziegler Stefan wrote: The jumping is gone when

Re: [Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

2014-12-22 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 8:57:26 AM G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Nyall. I think putting hidden proof of concepts within an official release doesn't put QGIS in a good light. It could be ok some time ago, when QGIS was a niche, but not today. If a sponsorship campagin is

Re: [Qgis-developer] Ugly jumping maps while zooming

2014-12-22 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Sorry about that blank email. Hit ctrl enter really early. On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 9:31:30 AM Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue Dec 23 2014 at 8:57:26 AM G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Nyall. I think putting hidden proof of concepts within an official

[Qgis-developer] 500 login into plugins

2014-12-21 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, Can anyone else confirm they are getting a 500 when logging into the ;plugins site? - Nathan ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer

Re: [Qgis-developer] qgis pre-refresh rendering ?

2014-12-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 as this has such a wide impact with a lot of other unknowns. On Sun Dec 14 2014 at 18:02:54 Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 December 2014 at 18:55, Alexander Bruy alexander.b...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-12-13 16:15 GMT+02:00 Sandro Santilli s...@keybit.net: The map

Re: [Qgis-developer] Snapping tolerance

2014-12-12 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think using the projects units makes more sense, Using the layer units makes things confusing I think, think of having one layer in degrees and another in meters. So +1 for swapping to mean project units. On Sat Dec 13 2014 at 4:02:10 PM Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Recently

Re: [Qgis-developer] Adding visual changelog entries to QGIS Tips

2014-12-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yes no qep for something like this. On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:55 pm Yves Jacolin yjaco...@free.fr wrote: On Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:56:30 Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. I think QGIS tips are a nice idea, and have been a bit neglected so far. What about making them richer by adding

Re: [Qgis-developer] Saving map config, or the meaning of extent (again)

2014-12-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Keeping just center+scale+rotation in QgsMapSettings seems like a cleaner solution. Is it still possible to have the ability to set extents? There are use cases for setting it vs trying to work out the scale and center. - Nathan On Mon Dec 08 2014 at 2:51:21 PM Martin Dobias

[Qgis-developer] QGIS with Hy (Lisp with Python)

2014-12-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
(aka LISP ALL THE THINGS) Just posted something that I thought a few people might be interested in http://nathanw.net/2014/12/04/using-hy-a-dialect-of-lisp-for-python-with-qgis/ - Nathan ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-developer] Retrieve field name used as label

2014-12-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Don't use QgsLabel it is the old label engine and will be removed in the future. - Nathan On Fri Dec 05 2014 at 9:27:14 AM Tom Chadwin tom.chad...@nnpa.org.uk wrote: QgsLabel(layer.pendingFields()).fields()[0].name() That doesn't work - it gives the field at position 0, not the labelling

Re: [Qgis-developer] Installin IntraMaps Roam

2014-12-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
the latest release about an hour ago: http://dms-aus.github.io/Roam/ - Nathan On Fri Nov 14 2014 at 3:22:33 AM Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 11/11/2014 11:30, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto: Did you build a project using the config manager first? Roam itself is just

[Qgis-developer] New layout for expression widget

2014-12-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, Just a heads up as I'm sure people will notice pretty quick but hopefully for the better. I have done some tweaks to the expression widget to make things a little easier to use and use the screen space better. The new layout looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/mGwJerN.png

Re: [Qgis-developer] Questions about Dialog for Select by Expression

2014-12-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Lene and Junior, The height of the expression frame should indeed have a minimum value, to avoid closing it. But this is not a new behaviour. In QGIS 2.4, you could already close totally this frame if you drag down enough. I think it's a bug and you can fill a ticket unless it's an intended

Re: [Qgis-developer] [plugins] refreshing canvas

2014-11-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, I suspect you are running into this http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/87841/why-qgsmapcanvas-only-appear-after-lost-focus Here is a fix http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/92734/97 - Nathan On Tue Nov 25 2014 at 9:34:14 AM Alexia Mondot alexia.mon...@free.fr wrote: Thanks for your

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qt5 support and packages

2014-11-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
ahhh I don't think we have PyQt support yet for Qt5 do we? If so it's going to be a Python 3 version which might cause some issues. - Nathan On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 4:49:20 PM Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Hi all. Is the time ripe to create packages against Qt5? In case, it would

[Qgis-developer] 2.6.1 Windows patch?

2014-11-12 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, Mainly for Jurgen. Is there any possibility of getting a patched 2.6.1 into the Windows installers and binaries. The bug that Martin fixed just after release that corrupted project files is a pretty nasty one that I think could do with a patched 2.6.1 if we can. Pretty please... Regards,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Installin IntraMaps Roam

2014-11-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Paolo, Did you build a project using the config manager first? Roam itself is just the viewer there is a different application to make the projects. - Nathan On Tue Nov 11 2014 at 7:43:11 PM Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Stability (2.8 LTS) vs development (3.0), a proposed way forward

2014-11-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
So, I believe that in production environment the most stable (!= latest) version is used. For almost 2 years we used 1.7.4, for me the most stable QGIS version in earth (more than 2.4 and 2.6!). Oh man. I couldn't even use 1.7.4 anymore it's so old ;) Anyway the point is a valid one. Running

Re: [Qgis-developer] Behaviour when create new features

2014-11-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
b)No warning that the edited features hadn’t been “finished” when saving and/or when disabling editing. (2.6 Testing indicates that disabling and then re-enabling editing while editing but not “finishing” a feature shows that you continue editing the same feature; I’m not sure that’s very

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 3.0?

2014-11-08 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Also PyQt4 imports won't work anymore so that would be a break right? On Sat, Nov 8, 2014, 7:52 PM Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/11/2014 8:15 pm, Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Paolo, Please don't

Re: [Qgis-developer] Python tests and C++ tests for the same functionality

2014-11-08 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Vote for 2. Python is a lot easier to test in, and no building step. On Sat, Nov 8, 2014, 11:30 PM Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi, While working on the test suite and trying to get all tests to pass I realized that there are a lot of tests that exist in two versions: C++ and

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 3.0?

2014-11-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Personally I think we should still do 2.8, LTR it, and then we can do 3.0 for the next release. Breaking the API again without a LTR in place makes me nervous as the 2.0 API really wasn't that long ago. - Nathan On Sat Nov 08 2014 at 4:11:34 PM Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Batch generation of map images with MTR

2014-11-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Richard, There is a new class you can use for the rendering because we now have MTR you have to wait for the image, or listen for the done event. The code is pretty easy and you can see an example of me using it here: https://github.com/DMS-Aus/qgis2img/blob/master/qgis2img/render.py#L43

Re: [Qgis-developer] CAD Tool plugins

2014-11-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
There is already a pull request and QEP for this already. We can now talk about it a bit more since 2.6 is out. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, 5:28 PM Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Hi all. I just accepted a new plugin (CADDigitize), which look fine. I got a bit lost here: on one side,

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP or RFC?

2014-10-29 Thread Nathan Woodrow
The name is QEP, which is what we are going with. Tim asked for the mandate vote to make me the manager for the topic and that is what I have gone with. Nathan On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 5:41 PM Matthias Kuhn matthias.k...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi, With the current initiative to get #1 approved by the

Re: [Qgis-developer] size of translations, use a distinct repo?

2014-10-29 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yeah I think that is a good idea. The repo size is already massive compared to what it should be. Nathan On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 8:08 PM Denis Rouzaud denis.rouz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It seems that the size of the QGIS repo is increasing exponentially lately... From a quick look, it

Re: [Qgis-developer] Delay 2.6 release?..

2014-10-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think it makes sense to keep up with the funded bug fixing if we have the money. On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, 4:00 AM Tim Sutton t...@kartoza.com wrote: Hi Paolo On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 24/10/2014 11:06, Sandro Santilli ha scritto: A

Re: [Qgis-developer] Measure tool persistence.

2014-10-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:56 AM, G. Garibaldi digitalm...@cox.net wrote: The most desirable quality of the tool would be for the markers remain on screen until cleared by the user. This includes remaining on screen while other commands are selected and new data entered. This onscreen

Re: [Qgis-developer] Measure tool persistence.

2014-10-19 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, Where is the ticket you opened? Regards, Nathan On Oct 20, 2014 7:01 AM, G. Garibaldi digitalm...@cox.net wrote: The measure tool onscreen markers are not persistent and are therefore not useful. Why have tools that have no useful function? I've complained about this before, filed a

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP #1

2014-10-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yep good idea. Let me clean it up over the weekend and I will email PSC for voting Nathan On Oct 17, 2014 7:55 PM, Pirmin Kalberer pi...@sourcepole.com wrote: Hi all, With the 6th QEP opened for discussion, it would be about time to finish QEP 1 first? As I understand the proposed process

Re: [Qgis-developer] Visual changelog for 2.6

2014-10-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Denis, Nyall is talking about Tim's changelog site. - Nathan On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Denis Rouzaud denis.rouz...@gmail.com wrote: I am a bit lost with changelogs. Nyall, is your changelog the same as Tim's one [0] or is there one on QGIS website? Were the features listed

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Moules j.mou...@hrwallingford.com wrote: At the risk of being a dissenting voice, is this really the message QGIS wants to spread? That sponsorship is king? As an Open Source GIS project, I would hope that its prowess lay in producing exceptional GI

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Honestly. I don't really think it's that big of a deal. If you pay for something in your time and would like credit for it there are lots of ways to get credit: blogs, twitters, commit logs, github stats. If I do something and I want people to think oh look a new feature Nathan added (or someone

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I'm with Nyall. I see no direct reason this is a bad idea. If I do something in my free time I don't care about getting recognition for it because my direct work on the project is enough and if someone wants to see what I do they can check my commit history or blog, however if I commit

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
My guideline in all this would be: What harm is it doing to need to change what is currently happening? To me the answer is none. Provided you don't put it all on one line in the commit log and have it at the bottom then put what ever you like in there as long as I can see what was done and by

Re: [Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

2014-10-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Also we should avoid playing the What If game. It's not normally a good idea because it's a open ended question. My position is normally fix a problem when it becomes a problem. (This only applies to non life threatening situations of course). - Nathan On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Nyall

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Two tables can also also have different filters. So you might want to compare them. Restricting to a single open table per layer is not good IMO, but yes the side stacking option that currently happens is not ideal. Something else I have considered in this situation is a table manager type dock,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Map swipe tool in QGIS

2014-10-06 Thread Nathan Woodrow
, have you found some time to work on the map swipe QGIS plugin? I would be happy to help developing the plugin or testing it, if you like? Do you have a public source code repository, so that i can start to study your code? Best regards Soeren 2014-07-31 11:28 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow

[Qgis-developer] QLR relative vs absolute paths - opinions needed

2014-10-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, I would like to get some opinions on how the currently QLR feature in 2.4 works. Currently the QLR will have absolute paths if the project is set to have them, or relative if the project is set in that mode. I'm not sure I really like this as it's a bit magic with what you will get and

Re: [Qgis-developer] RFC for python server plugins ready for voting

2014-10-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yes a vote here or on the pull request is fine. Only PSC votes count towards a pass and fail. Nathan On Oct 4, 2014 7:55 PM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-04 11:35 GMT+02:00 Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at: Am 03.10.2014, 18:13 Uhr, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti

Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: Style widget ergonomics

2014-10-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Vincent Mora vincent.m...@oslandia.com wrote: The 'Labels' small icon is my preferred option. It Hey Vincent, This is the plan as far as I know. Both features landed by two different devs at the same time so it would be good to unify them now that the base

Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: Icon for delete selected polygon

2014-09-30 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Anita, I'm still not sure I really like that icon. Personally I still think a simple bin is a good sign for delete. It is the delete icon on OS X, Linux, and Windows, and most mobile apps. Having a polygon and a cross still feels like unselect to me. Just a personal feeling. - Nathan On

Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.5 vs 2.4 rendering mode

2014-09-29 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, I'm not sure I follow. Could you post a screen shot. - Nathan On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:02 PM, PIERRE Sylvain sylvain.pie...@cg67.fr wrote: Hi, Doing some test on 2.5. I’m a little bit surprised by rendering mode between 2.5 and 2.4. Is there any change? First QGIS 2.5 is

Re: [Qgis-developer] standardisation of the editing map tools: modify behaviour of press-pan-release tools

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Denis, There is a 4th option of course and that is a key modifier for override to do click-click. I was planning on doing that a while ago when I thought about the same thing. So adding something like shift+click to enabled click-click mode. Not sure if that is better but there is not a

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
What about a icon in the legend to note that it it's not going to be saved? - Nathan On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts: - I don't think warning should be occurring when creating a memory layer (that is when pasting as new layer, when

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I guess the main issue with replacing the style swatch is we loose that for a ram icon that will be there all the time so you can't see the style set on the layer. Personally I do prefer the name Temporary rather then Memory. - Nathan On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Nyall Dawson

Re: [Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

2014-09-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, I think the best course of action here is to hold off until after 2.6 so we can review this thing as a whole solution rather then rushing it in last minute and then moving the target later. IMO we could in the future use sqlite in memory datastore for the memory provider which gives us

Re: [Qgis-developer] Telemetry Layer (MQTT Integration) - alpha released

2014-09-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Andrew, Are you Considering uploading it to the QGIS plugin repository at plugins.qgis.org? - Nathan On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Andrew McClure and...@southweb.co.nz wrote: Dear QGIS developers, I have submitted my first QGIS plugin to the world. It is experimental, unfinished,

Re: [Qgis-developer] [QGIS-UX] Proposal: move the Remove layer(s) button

2014-09-06 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Mathieu, Yeah this makes sense to me. It's only really used when you have the legend open so it's good to have it close. - Nathan On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.a...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I'd like to circulate a UX proposal and see how people react. For

Re: [Qgis-developer] RFC/QEP template

2014-09-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey Alessandro: We do indeed. Thanks to Larry. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/blob/master/QEP-0-Template.rst Regards, Nathan On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, do we have a template for an RFC/QEP to start with? IMHO is

Re: [Qgis-developer] RFC/QEP template

2014-09-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Yep that is the workflow. All QEPs are done though a PR. On Sep 4, 2014 5:21 PM, Alessandro Pasotti apaso...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-09-04 9:05 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com: Hey Alessandro: We do indeed. Thanks to Larry. https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement

Re: [Qgis-developer] Another question about QEP/RFC submission process

2014-09-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, Yeah the use of labels and the status field in the QEP is the way to go. Depending on the type of change it can go to voting first up, some things are simple enough that they can be voted right away e.g Lets use Skype rather then IRC (example of course). There isn't much to flesh out there

Re: [Qgis-developer] QEP or RFC?

2014-09-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 to QEP Mainly because the name is clear. I didn't know what RFC was when I first started so google sorted that out and it will for QEP for new users. If you are going to write a QEP/RFC you are already involved so you will know what it is, we will make it clear on the website. Its also nice

[Qgis-developer] Context menu on canvas

2014-09-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, I would like to discuss the possibility of having a right click context menu on the canvas. I know there is a current feature of swapping to the last used map tool but I feel this is a weak feature compared to what we could have in a context menu. The one main point though is the

[Qgis-developer] QEP1 - Proposal for QEP

2014-08-28 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey all, So I think all (most) agree that the QEP idea is good for the future of the project. So in order to move this forward Richard has created a new github repo for us to store the QEPs. The plan is to use a git repo to store the QEPs and new QEPs MUST be added via a pull request.The

Re: [Qgis-developer] Identify results form vs feature form

2014-08-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Alexandre Neto senhor.n...@gmail.com wrote: Like Denis said, if you are doing lots of editing, you need things to be done fast and need windows out of your way. Putting identify in window mode make the Open feature Form hard to use, since two windows will open

Re: [Qgis-developer] Processing causes major slowness at QGIS startup

2014-08-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
It should also be possible to add some timing stats to the plugin loading code from the QGIS side to log which plugins are taking time to load. - Nathan On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Luca Manganelli luc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Régis Haubourg

Re: [Qgis-developer] Resurrecting the RFC (QEP - QGIS Enhancement Proposal)

2014-08-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey, I am still of the opinion that the PSC doesn't need to be involved in the vote unless there is a split. Most QEPs will be at a technical level and might take a bit to parse, others might not be. It might be best to have categories or QEPs so that different groups have different votes. A

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