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.

• want this on the list Markus?:

[3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book published by Springer]

• Translations: metrics?

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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
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Opportunities to Help

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

• Find more translators among the (power) users

- Develop a framework for efficient and semi-automated translations of the 400+ module help pages

• Publish more use cases in the GRASS Wiki

• We require more volunteers for help with native MS Windows packaging and testing

• (crossover with QGIS): QGIS grass-plugin and toolbox maintainer(s) required

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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
• Move/removal of web-svn documentation to MediaWiki; move/removal of devel material from MediaWiki to TracWiki
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