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

Areas for Improvement

• Increase involvement of community
• Increase number of contributors (code)
• Reduce number of release cycles

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 your 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
• Fourth deegree day will be held on May 26th/27th, together with a local OpenStreetMap outreach activity
• deegree 3.0.x (?) to be released, including SOS, WPS, (other services and components here)