[Request]: qgis

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start in the ScoopInstaller/Extras repository by reviewing existing application manifests and the QGIS homepage and download link provided in the issue. Add QGIS using the listed stable Windows installer URL, following the repository's manifest conventions, and verify that the application installs successfully through Scoop.

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Description

package-request
Prerequisites
  • I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.
Criteria
  • Reasonably well-known and widely used (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 100 stars and/or 50 forks)
  • English interface (or at least English documentation)
  • Latest stable version
  • Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
  • Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)
Name

qgis

Description

A popular OSS GIS software

Homepage

https://qgis.org/

Download Link(s)

https://download.qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-4.0.1-1.msi

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

The main repo has 10k+ stars.

Link to Wikipedia article.

Dominant language
PowerShell
Stars
2.2k
Forks
1.8k
Avg merge
1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
52

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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