Developers¶

• Start here: New Developers Welcome Pack
• Contributor Guidelines
• QGIS Architecture Roadmap
• Social Contract
• Using Git
• Developer Meetings
• Test Build Results
  

General¶

• Screenshots
• Vector Support
• Raster Support
• Platform Support Priorities
• Community Website
• Documentation
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• FAQ
• QGIS on IRC
• Common Problems
• Internationalisation Issues &
• Translating Messages

Building QGIS¶

The UsersCorner has a list of sites providing various rpm and deb packages that satisfy qgis build dependencies.

Build notes for developers¶

SVN trunk¶

• Building with CMake - build guide for all platforms
• Python Bindings

QGIS 0.8 and earlier¶

• Step By Step Build Instructions
• Setting up Distcc to Speed Compilation
• Setting Up Kdevelop For QGIS Developement
• Building On Mac OsX
• Projection support in QGIS
• Grass Support
• Building a Qt3 codebase with Qt4
• Building QT 4 with Visual C++ 2005
• Building Quantum GIS with Visual C++ 2005
• Building Windows Binary on Linux
• Building Distro Independent Linux Bundle
• Building Windows Binary with Mingw
• Building on Windows

Coding Standards and Bug Hunting¶

• Coding Standards
• Coding Guidelines
• Tracking down Problems

Coding Design Discussions¶

• Splitting into Libraries
• Map Labeling
• X11 Zoom Bug
• The Road to a WFS Client Implementation
• Redesign of QGis data model

Coding tutorials¶

• Writing Shapefiles With OGR

Help on writing custom apps with QGIS API¶

• Tutorial 1: Write a simple mapping application using the new QGIS Canvas API
• Tutorial 2: Using MapTools with the QGIS Canvas API
• Tutorial 3: Labelling map canvas features
• Tutorial 4: Adding a raster to the map canvas
• Tutorial 5: Creating temporary features on the map canvas
• Tutorial 6: Working with vector feature attributes

Help on writing plugins¶

• Developing Plugins
• Developing Plugins with Python
• Debugging Plugins
• Developing Data Provider Plugins
• Plugin Interface Enhancements

API Documentation and source profiling¶

• API Documentation
• HighLevelUML
• MapCanvas API
• Benchmarks
• Rendering Performance

Miscellaneous¶

• Writing Shapefiles with shapelib
• Other Resources
• Developer Profiles
• Using views with the postgis provider
• Adding New Tools to the GRASS Toolbox
• Sqlite3 Notes
• Integration of QGIS and OSSIM
• Raster Development Page

Guidelines for Preparing A Release¶

I have just added this section and the documents are still in preparation.

• Pre Release Checklist
• Source Package Preparation (platform independent)
• Binary Package Preparation for Windows
• Binary Package Preparation for Linux
• Binary Package Preparation for Mac
• Documentation Release Preparation (platform independent)
• Post Release Checklist (press announcements etc)