Live GIS Disc Press Release 75
Descoping OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release
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For osgeolive-11 press release, I suggest we structure as: We are starting osgeolive 11 release. This time, we beleive we need to de-scope for a few reasons. 1. There are included projects which have lost community and probably shouldn’t be recommended by us. 2. We have been continually increasing what we have taken on and we have capped out our volunteer effort. 3. We missed our last deadline for the first time, and we don’t like doing that. Either we need to descope, reduce quality, or get more resources (volunteers or sponsorship). We will be reaching out to communities and asking for help getting projects up to date and quickstarts up to date and help with testing. But we will also be planning to drop some projects. (I think we should also drop 32 bit).
We are starting the build cycle for version 11.0 of the OSGeo-Live DVD/USB/VM which will be released in August 2016, ready for the global FOSS4G conference in Bonn, Germany.
This release is going to be more challenging than usual as we be moving to the next Long Term Release (LTS) of Ubuntu,16.04 Xenial. We expect to be asking for help to solve the multitude of dependency conflicts likely to be introduced. In particular, we expect most debian packages and bash installers will need tweaking once an alpha OSGeo-Live build is working. Initial packaging efforts have started and the Debian packages will soon appear in UbuntuGIS Unstable (currently in Testing).
We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add translations, or anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.
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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.