2026-10-07 –, WS - Riders Meeting
Developing software as a team typically requires choosing and following coding standards to ensure things run smoothly (larger the team, stricter the rules). QGIS plugin development is no exception.This workshop aims to introduce modern Python development tools for QGIS plugin development.
During the session, we will create a simple QGIS plugin and set up the development environment using best practices. We will cover at least the following topics:
* Configuring Python formatting and linting tools alongside with modern package management (flake8-qgis, ruff, mypy, prek, uv)
* Trying out writing unit tests for the plugin and its UI components (pytest-qgis, pytest-qt)
* Learning how to update translations (qgis-plugin-dev-tools, Qt Linguist)
* Setting up up a CI pipelines for running tests and publishing your plugin automatically with GitHub Actions
Joona is a Geospatial Software Consultant and open source enthusiast with a special interest in QGIS and QField plugin development tools. He has been part of the development team behind the Finnish Topological Database Management System and has contributed to numerous other QGIS plugins over the years.
He is also one of the main developers of pytest-qgis, pytest-qfield, flake8-qgis, qgis-plugin-dev-tools and qgis_plugin_tools.
Riikka is a GIS software developer and has been working as a long-term contractor for the National Land Survey of Finland, first developing QGIS based topographic data management system and more recently working on Airflow based cartographic generalization system. She is also a maintainer of the qgis-plugin-dev-tools library.