GRASS GIS Report 2008

GRASS GIS

 * Contact name: Markus Neteler

Key Accomplishments
the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period

Web site: http://grass.osgeo.org


 * GRASS 6.3.0 released (technology preview)
 * GRASS 6.4.0 prepared and release candidates published
 * Work on GRASS 7 started
 * Integration in OSGeo4W efforts now active
 * New developers acquired: x to main archive, y to AddOns repository.
 * More than 1000 subscribers in the grass-user mailing list
 * (470 in grass-dev, many more in the other GRASS mailing lists)


 * In total 22 TB of downloads from grass.osgeo.org in 2008
 * (statistic; not including downloads from mirror sites)


 * Three Google Summer of Code projects awarded and completed.

Areas for Improvement
any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help


 * SVN history "annotate" ability for Trac source code browser desired

Opportunities to Help
list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report


 * Find more translators among the (power) users
 * Publish more use cases in the GRASS Wiki
 * Require more volunteers for help with native MS Windows packaging.
 * (crossover with QGIS): QGIS grass-plugin maintainer required.

Outlook for 2009
this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)


 * Vector topology speedup
 * Overhaul of raster library
 * Cartography GUI extension programmed
 * Further participation in Google Summer of Code (we hope)
 * Stability on MS Windows leading to explosion of new users.