Difference between revisions of "Deegree Report 2011"

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=== Key Accomplishments ===
 
=== Key Accomplishments ===
* 2011 ...
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* Software development was focussed on featureService, mapService, catalogueService and underlying core modules. Data access modules for PostGIS, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server have been created or improved, with support for complex application schemas and different access modes (blob, relational). Basic support for WFS 2.0 has been realized.
* Reijer Copier, Johannes Wilden and Andreas Schmitz have been nominated as new TMC members in October.
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* Releases: 3.0.3 in March and 3.1 in October, iGeoDesktop 0.4.2 in July.
* Andreas Poth resigned from the PSC in November.
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* Outreach: deegree was presented at Runder Tisch GIS (March in Munich, Germany), FOSSGIS (April in Heidelberg, Germany), AGIT (July in Salzburg, Austria)
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Also worth mentioning:
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* During the OSGeo Bolsena code sprint deegree's INSPIRE capabilities have been improved, along with administration and performance enhancements.
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* An intensive code quality review has been carried out during summer.
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* Andreas and Markus opened up their developer blogs in July.
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* Committee membership changes: Reijer Copier, Johannes Wilden and Andreas Schmitz have been nominated as new TMC members in October. Andreas Poth resigned from the PSC in November.
 
* A roadmap for deegree 3 releases has been set up and discussed among TMC and PSC.
 
* A roadmap for deegree 3 releases has been set up and discussed among TMC and PSC.
 
* deegree's 3.2 release has been planned for publication in 2012 as the "INSPIRE release".
 
* deegree's 3.2 release has been planned for publication in 2012 as the "INSPIRE release".
 
 
* ... was the most important year of deegree v.3 development (AKA deegree3). The module structure has been improved and made stable, configuration has been designed and implemented, the build mechanism set up. Nightly builds have been made available in August [more TBD]
 
* A first pre-release of deegree's GIS Desktop application named "iGeoDesktop" was released in March
 
* The first deegree 2.3 release candidate was published in November, after quite some improvements in the release process and result. The package included pre-configured and ready-to-run versions of WMS, WFS, WCS, CSW, WPVS, WPS and iGeoPortal. Those were at the same time made available on http://demo.deegree.org/.
 
* Participation in the OSGeo Bolsena code sprint:
 
* Outreach: deegree was presented at Runder Tisch GIS (March in Munich, Germany), FOSSGIS (April in Heidelberg, Germany), AGIT (July in Salzburg, Austria)
 
  
 
=== Areas for Improvement ===
 
=== Areas for Improvement ===

Revision as of 05:12, 14 August 2012

THIS IS A DRAFT VERSION AND STILL WORK IN PROGRESS!

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Key Accomplishments

  • Software development was focussed on featureService, mapService, catalogueService and underlying core modules. Data access modules for PostGIS, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server have been created or improved, with support for complex application schemas and different access modes (blob, relational). Basic support for WFS 2.0 has been realized.
  • Releases: 3.0.3 in March and 3.1 in October, iGeoDesktop 0.4.2 in July.
  • Outreach: deegree was presented at Runder Tisch GIS (March in Munich, Germany), FOSSGIS (April in Heidelberg, Germany), AGIT (July in Salzburg, Austria)

Also worth mentioning:

  • During the OSGeo Bolsena code sprint deegree's INSPIRE capabilities have been improved, along with administration and performance enhancements.
  • An intensive code quality review has been carried out during summer.
  • Andreas and Markus opened up their developer blogs in July.
  • Committee membership changes: Reijer Copier, Johannes Wilden and Andreas Schmitz have been nominated as new TMC members in October. Andreas Poth resigned from the PSC in November.
  • A roadmap for deegree 3 releases has been set up and discussed among TMC and PSC.
  • deegree's 3.2 release has been planned for publication in 2012 as the "INSPIRE release".

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 2012

  • deegree summit as combined TMC and PSC meeting
  • Create/advance security modules
  • Improve web site and other outreach material
  • Infrastructure review and renewal
  • deegree 3.2 "INSPIRE" release
  • deegree day