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QGIS Plugin CI

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Contains scripts to perform automated testing and deployment for QGIS plugins. These scripts are written for and tested on GitHub, Travis-CI, github workflows and Transifex.

  • Deploy plugin releases on QGIS official plugin repository
  • Publish plugin in Github releases, option to deploy a custom repository
  • Easily integrated in Travis-CI or github workflows
  • Completely handle translations with Transifex:
    • create the project and the languages
    • pull and push translations
    • all TS/QM files can be managed on the CI, the i18n folder can be omitted from the Git repository
  • changelog section in the metadata.txt can be populated if the CHANGELOG.md is present
  • set the experimental flag according to the tag if needed

📖 For further information, see the documentation.

QGIS-Plugin-CI is best served if you use these two conventions :

Command line

usage: qgis-plugin-ci [-h] [-v]
                      {package,changelog,release,pull-translation,push-translation}
                      ...

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         print the version and exit

commands:
  qgis-plugin-ci command

  {package,changelog,release,pull-translation,push-translation}
    package             creates an archive of the plugin
    changelog           gets the changelog content
    release             release the plugin
    pull-translation    pull translations from Transifex
    push-translation    update strings and push translations

Requirements

  • The code is under a git repository (git archive is used to bundle the plugin).
  • There is no uncommitted changes when doing a package/release (althought there is an option to bypass this requirement).
  • A configuration at the top directory either in .qgis-plugin-ci or in setup.cfg or pyproject.toml with a [qgis-plugin-ci] section (see docs/configuration/options.md for details).
  • The source files of the plugin are within a sub-directory with a metadata.txt file with the following fields:
    • description
    • qgisMinimumVersion
    • repository
    • tracker

See parameters.py for more parameters and details. Notice that the name of this directory will be used for the zip file.

QRC and UI files

  • Any .qrc file in the source top directory (plugin_path) will be compiled and output as filename_rc.py. You can then import it using import plugin_path.resources_rc
  • Currently, qgis-plugin-ci does not compile any .ui file.

Publishing plugins

When releasing, you can publish the plugin :

  1. In the official QGIS plugin repository. You need to provide user name and password for your Osgeo account.
  2. As a custom repository in Github releases and which can be added later in QGIS. The address will be: https://github.com/__ORG__/__REPO__/releases/latest/download/plugins.xml

Both can be achieved in the same process.

Pre-release and experimental

In the case of a pre-release (either from the tag name according to Semantic Versioning or from the GitHub release), the plugin will be flagged as experimental.

The tool will recognise any label use as a suffix to flag it as pre-release :

  • 10.1.0-beta1
  • 3.4.0-rc.2

Debug

In any Python module, you can have a global variable as DEBUG = True, which will be changed to False when packaging the plugin.

Other tools

QGIS-Plugin-Repo

QGIS-Plugin-CI can generate the plugins.xml file, per plugin. If you want to merge many XML files into one to have a single QGIS plugin repository providing many plugins, you should check QGIS-Plugin-Repo. It's designed to run on CI after QGIS-Plugin-CI.