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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