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* Three [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html Google Summer of Code] projects awarded and completed. | * Three [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/osgeo/about.html Google Summer of Code] projects awarded and completed. | ||
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| − | * | + | * [http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/i18n.php#statistics Translations]: ''metrics? new LANGs added this year?'' |
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Revision as of 23:16, 25 February 2009
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.
- 3rd edition of Neteler and Mitasova's GRASS Book published by Springer.
- --HB: while not per se a direct accomplishment of the project or PSC, it is an important milestone for the community that such a book is published about it (repeatedly) by a major scientific publishing house.
- Translations: metrics? new LANGs added this year?
- ...
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
- ...
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
- ...
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 our MediaWiki site; move/removal of devel material from MediaWiki to our TracWiki site
- ...