Deegree Report 2008

deegree

• Contact name: Jens Fitzke
• Web site: http://deegree.org/

Key Accomplishments

• The deegree Project Steering Commitee (PSC) was instantiated in January.
• deegree 2.1 demo packages have been released in January, including OGC reference implementation for WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 and WCS 1.0.0.
• The coordinate reference system component has been completely redesigned to meet the requirement to be highly configurable.
• Release management was formally installed and a release manager appointed by the PSC.
• deegree applied for OSGeo incubation and started the incubation process in May.
• Third deegree day successfully took place in Bonn in June with about 80 participants (http://deegreeday.deegree.org/archive).
• Work on the next major version (deegree 3) started.
• deegree 3 alpha has been released, containing SOS as a first ready-to-run demo.
• deegree 2.2 stable has been released in December.

Areas for Improvement

• Extend and improve documentation, create tutorials
• Increase involvement of the community
• Increase the number of contributors (code)
• Reduce the number of pre-releases within one release cycle

Opportunities to Help

• Test release candidates at an early stage
• Provide or improve documentation (e.g. QA by native speakers)
• Contribute to tutorial production process
• Actively contribute to deegree 3 development
• Share experiences with deegree

Outlook for 2009

• Release management to be refined
• A new build mechanism based on ant/ivy to be established
• deegree 2.3 to be released, including improved iGeoPortal GUI
• deegree iGeoDesktop preview to be published
• Fourth deegree day will be held on May 26th/27th, together with a local OpenStreetMap outreach activity
• More deegree 3 alpha versions to be released, including demo packages for SOS, WPS, WCS, WFS and WMS
• OSGeo incubation to be continued