Great overview, thanks for drafting Régis! Some additional ideas: Could we add a section with the key improvements from an user perspective?
I'm particularly intrigued by the services / plugins part. Could you elaborate? Regards, Anita On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi again, > here is my very first draft: > > Several images can be pulled from the joined slides given at Foss4G-EU > here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzatQbprJ- > hjWF95VzdHbGRsVEk/view?usp=sharing > > René-Luc, David, Paul, don't hesitate to amend that! > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------------------------- > > > *Qgis server refactoring is done!* > As you may know, QGIS is jumping to a new major version (yes!). > Doing so was made necessary because of the need to switch to python 3, > QT5, but also because we needed to break the QGIS API in several places. > > A year ago, a tiny troll <https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/63>from > switzerland rang a bell about the strong need for love server code base > required. > > Indeed, the API was locked by some old methods of QGIS server. In short, > QGIS server was reparsing the qgs project file in his own way, and created > dependencies to part of QGIS we needed to drop. > > As outsourcing the server code base was not an option, so we had to > refactor it. > > The involved parties decided to get engaged in a code sprint > <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/QGIS3---QGIS-Server-code-sprint-Notes> in > the city of Lyon , France dedicated to sharing their vision, planning the > work and finally making all the following > <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/74> happen : > > > > *# Deep, complex and unrewarding tasks:* > > - Remove all singleton calls > > - Cut all the dependencies to the old qgis project parser > > - Minimize dependencies to GUI library. Since fonts are necessary to > render maps, totally removing them was not feasable. > > *# Higher level refactoring* > > All services (WMS GetMap, WFS GetFeature, GetLegendGraphics, WCS, GetPrint > etc..) have been rewritten. Some like WMS were entirely rewritten. Kudos to > the dev's > > > *# New features and architecture stuff* > > - QGIS Server Services as plugins like providers. (slide 10 would be a > nice figure here) > > - Multi-thread rendering <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/3886>- like > in the desktop > > - A new option to trust layer metadata > <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5094> and speed up project loading > > > *# Infrastructure tasks* > > - Build a OGC compliancy platform > <http://oslandia.com/en/2017/06/16/qgis-server-ogc-cite-compliance-testing/> > and > integrate it to a continuous integration platform. Conformity reports are > now pushed to tests.qgis.org *XXX waiting for Richard to expose them in > the website* > > - Add unit tests... and again more unit tests > > - Stress QGIS server against security leaks > <http://oslandia.com/en/2017/06/14/qgis-server-security-aspect/> (SQL > injections and other malicious attacks) > > - Start profiling and bench marking performances. This work still need > some love - and funding - to be achieved > > > A presentation > <https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g-europe/foss4g-europe-2017-paris/src/master/presentations/2017-07-20/general_track/foss4g-europe-2017-QGIS_3_Refactoring_and_enhancement-DMarteau-PBlottiere.pdf> > was > given at FOSS4G-EU in July. > > *Congratulations* to the developers who worked hard on that work. > > Now this deserves to be well tested, please report back any issues! > > > > 2017-10-04 15:17 GMT+02:00 Anita Graser <anitagra...@gmx.at>: > >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Yes, refactoring is now complete! see : https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-E >>> nhancement-Proposals/issues/74#issuecomment-334123595 >>> >>> Anita, I'll draft an article tonight if you still agree to review it, >>> that would be great! >>> >> >> >> Sure! >> >> Anita >> >> >> >> >> >
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