Hi Anita Are you going to put it on the QGIS blog? Could you share the draft then it is on WP so I can make some edits?
For now I also put your text as a placeholder in the changelog for 3.0 here changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.0.0/#qgis-server-overhaul <http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.0.0/#qgis-server-overhaul> By the way I’d love it if non-coders (and of course coders also welcome) out there who are looking for a way to contribute to QGIS could contact me and help to write up the changelog for 3.0….Its going to be a massive job since our developer community have been rather busy adding lots of new features and tweaks in QGIS 3.0! Regards Tim > On 17 Oct 2017, at 22:36, Anita Graser <anitagra...@gmx.at> wrote: > > I've extended Régis' draft with some of the more recent information. Please > let me know what you think. I'll try to publish in a couple of days. > > -- start -- > > 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. > (http://blog.qgis.org/2016/02/10/qgis-3-0-plans/ > <http://blog.qgis.org/2016/02/10/qgis-3-0-plans/>) > > 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: > > 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 devs! > > New features > > - 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 thus speed up project loading > > - WFS 1.1 support https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5297 > <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5297> > > - Full Python bindings for the server API > > - Server Services as plugins like providers > > > Deep, complex and unrewarding tasks > > - Remove all singleton calls > > - Cut all the dependencies to the old QGIS project file parser > > - Minimize dependencies to GUI library. Since fonts are necessary to render > maps, totally removing them was not feasable. > > 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 <http://tests.qgis.org/> > > - 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! > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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