QHackFriday

A QHackFriday (pronounced KwakFriday) is an informal virtual meeting to hack around, document, discuss and in general meet the awesome QGIS community every last Friday of the month (view calendar, subscribe .ics)

There is no formal agenda, fixed schedule nor moderators, simply join the meeting on jitsi and say hi! https://meet.jit.si/QHackFriday

Discussion topics

If you want to discuss a topic or present something during the day, just add it here so that other interested community members can join

QHackFriday 1 - 28.08.2020

Making your first Pull Request to QGIS Documentation

This is a mentored walkthrough of the entire process of getting your documentation environment set up, building QGIS docs and fixing your first small issue, submitting a Pull Request and having it approved by someone in the community.

Stream leader: e.g. Yves Jacolin

Video conference link:

Participants:

#	Name	Email
1	Rasmus Slot	[email protected]
2	Ion Alexandru MECA	[email protected]
3	Raul RADU	[email protected]
4	Erik Meerburg	[email protected]

Reporting and validating bug reports

This is a mentored walkthrough of the entire process of creating a new issue on the QGIS issue tracker, verifying existing issues and generally participating in the effort to triage the issue queue.

Stream leader: e.g. Giovanni Manghi

Participants:

#	Name	Email
1	Rasmus Slot	[email protected]
2	Ion Alexandru Meca	[email protected]
3	Raul RADU	[email protected]

Writing tests for QGIS

This is a mentored walkthrough of the entire process of creating and running tests for QGIS. Contributing tests to QGIS can hugely help improve the quality of the code base and prevent regressions from coming into the code. you should already have python or C++ skills and a working QGIS development environment to participate in this stream.

Stream leader: e.g. Matthias Kuhn

Participants:

#	Name	Email
1	Shiva Reddy Koti	[email protected]
2	Ion Alexandru Meca	[email protected]
3	Raul RADU	[email protected]
4	David Erill	[email protected]
5	Áron Gergely	[email protected]
6	Rasmus Slot	[email protected]
7	Yoichi Kayama	[email protected]

QGIS Changelog - How to help make the next release the most awesome one ever!!!

Stream leader: Charles Dixon-Paver

Video link: Topic: https://meet.jit.si/QHackFriday

Time: Aug 28, 2020 12h00 UTC

Wiki:

Participants:

#	Name	Email
1	Tim Sutton	[email protected]
2	Your name here	[email protected]

Background:

Recently we proposed changes in the workflows used for producing the QGIS changelog with each release:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/Changelog-Workflows

In this session we would like to help to onramp more editors and content managers for the changelog. Generating the changelog is a HUGE task each release and it is only getting bigger as features flow more rapidly into QGIS. We really need your help, so come along to this session to find out how the process works and how you can contribute.

Note: We will record the Jitsi room for this session so you can watch it again later!

Agenda:

• Walk through of the current process (as described in the wiki page above), and improve the clarity of the workflow description.
• Demo of adding a new feature to the changelog.
• Ideas for establishing a standardised writing style for changelog entries.
• General discussion.
• Call for helpers.
• Registration of new helpers on the platform & giving them the needed access rights.

QHackFriday 2 - 25.09.2020

QHackFriday 3 - 30.10.2020