Difference between revisions of "Live GIS Disc Press Release 63"

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=Metrics and finding abandoned projects to retired from OSGeo-Live=
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One of the core principles behind OSGeo-Live is to help new users find the best geospatial open source applications. Quality applications which are widely used and maintained by established and robust communities.
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With the upcoming OSGeo-Live 9.5 release, we will make OpenHub metrics very visible, adding a "Metrics" tab from the main OSGeo-Live page, which links to our existing OSGeo-Live OpenHub summaries.
  
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As such, it is important for us as a community to continue to review our list of OSGeo-Live applications to ensure the projects are still valuable and are being maintained. Very helpful for evaluating the health of a community are the metrics provided by OpenHub. They are helpful for us as a community in keeping track of projects, and also for new users in assessing projects, which is why we collate them at: http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html
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Most OSGeo-Live projects have very compelling metrics, demonstrating an established and active development community. However, there are a few projects where OpenHub metrics are dated, incorrectly suggesting a lack of project activity. As such, I encourage all projects to review their OpenHub metrics before the next OSGeo-Live release, and update where appropriate.
  
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For the upcoming OSGeo-Live 9.5 release, I'm proposing to make this metrics page easier to find, by providing a direct link to it from the OSGeo-Live toolbar.
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Start by looking here: http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html
  
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I also propose to also review this metrics page and do something about projects which indicate a lack of community or recent activity.
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==About OSGeo-Live==
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[http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-live] is a [http://lubuntu.net Lubuntu] based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.
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=Projects being considered to be retired from OSGeo-Live=
  
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This might be as simple as updating out-of-date OpenHub metrics pages. But there are some projects which appear to have lost their community and as such should be retired from OSGeo-Live.
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Following on from reviewing [http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html OSGeo-Live metrics], there are a couple of projects which we consider are candidates for retiring from OSGeo-Live.  
  
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Projects which should be investigated include:
 
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* gvSig - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
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* GeoNode - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
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* Cartaro - no OpenHub metrics
 
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* ncWMS - incorrectly titled as "Web Map Service for NetCDF data", minimal recent development
 
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* 52 North WPS - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
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* tinyOWS - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
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* QGIS Servier - no OpenHub metrics as it is part of QGIS. Would it be possible to pull out as a separate project?
 
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* SpatiLite - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
 
* GpsDrive  - no recent activity. Has critical errors preventing building. https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1601
 
* GpsDrive  - no recent activity. Has critical errors preventing building. https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1601
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* GpsPrune - only one developer. I can't find an email list to gauge the community update. But the project is well established.
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* tinyOWS - no recent activity, and open errors: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1233
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* GeoKettle - no recent activity. Is the project being used?
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* QGIS Server - should this be merged into QGIS?
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* GMT - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
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* TileMill - no OpenHub metrics
 
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* Ushahidi  - no recent activity. Is it looking at the correct code repository?
 
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==About OSGeo-Live==
 
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[http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-live] is a [http://lubuntu.net Lubuntu] based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 17:57, 29 January 2016

OSGeo-Live metrics going public in next release

DRAFT

1 February 2016

With the upcoming OSGeo-Live 9.5 release, we will make OpenHub metrics very visible, adding a "Metrics" tab from the main OSGeo-Live page, which links to our existing OSGeo-Live OpenHub summaries.

Most OSGeo-Live projects have very compelling metrics, demonstrating an established and active development community. However, there are a few projects where OpenHub metrics are dated, incorrectly suggesting a lack of project activity. As such, I encourage all projects to review their OpenHub metrics before the next OSGeo-Live release, and update where appropriate.

Start by looking here: http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-live is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.

Projects being considered to be retired from OSGeo-Live

Following on from reviewing OSGeo-Live metrics, there are a couple of projects which we consider are candidates for retiring from OSGeo-Live.

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