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qgis/QGIS-Documentation
QGIS Documentation
The official documentation source for QGIS, the open-source GIS desktop application. It's a Sphinx/RST project covering user manual, PyQGIS developer cookbook, server manual, and training content. If you contribute to QGIS or write QGIS plugins, this is where the reference material lives.
Active maintenance — pushed today with CI builds on every commit. Sphinx doctest integration actually runs the PyQGIS code snippets against a real QGIS instance, catching API drift before it ships. Transifex integration is well-automated: English RST changes flow to translators automatically, and completed translations flow back without manual intervention. The fork-to-star ratio (1016:600) signals genuine contributor engagement rather than passive stars.
The macOS locale workaround tells you to hand-edit a file inside your virtualenv — that's a patch that evaporates on every `pip install`. Should be fixed upstream in the build script with LC_ALL before invoking Sphinx. The repo is documentation-only with no link to version-matched source code examples, so when the QGIS API changes and the docs lag, there's no automated way to detect the mismatch except the doctest suite (which only covers cookbook snippets). PDF build dependencies are a mess — font packages vary by language, the README lists them inline rather than in a machine-readable format, and there's no CI job validating PDF builds, only HTML.