[Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany

Fri Apr 4 15:22:52 CEST 2008

Hello Miguel,
well, I may be naive. But would it be hard/possible/feasible to set-up a mirror server for the source code? I do not know, what the ressources are, but there are other very small projects who are doing so. I hope that you are not annoyed by what I am writing. I just try to understand the issue. And the interest in the community is *really* great. Users are happy to see that the development is going that fast and programmers have so many ideas what could be done...

All the best,
Wolfgang

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:13:58 +0200
> Von: "Miguel Montesinos" <mmontesinos at prodevelop.es>
> An: "Users and Developers mailing list" <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
> Betreff: RE: RE: [Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany

> Hello Wolfgang,
> 
> It's good to see that there is interest in the community towards all these
> steps we are planning.
> 
> The first step would be just that one, read-access. But even that may
> cause a perfomance degradation, as there are a "very big number" of developers
> using it now, and from time to time we already have some perfomance
> problems. So it's easy to foresee more perfomance problems if we add more access
> to the SVN (even just read-access).
> 
> When we fix the risk, and "certainly" avoid that problem, It should be
> made public.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Miguel Montesinos
> Director Técnico
> PRODEVELOP
> C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10
> 46004 Valencia. Spain
> e-mail: mmontesinos at prodevelop.es
> http://www.prodevelop.es
> Tlf: +34 963510612
> 
>  
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gvsig_internacional-bounces at runas.cap.gva.es 
> >[mailto:gvsig_internacional-bounces at runas.cap.gva.es] On 
> >Behalf Of Wolfgang Qual
> >Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:58 PM
> >To: gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es; Jorge Sanz
> >Subject: Re: RE: [Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany
> >
> >Hello Jorge,
> >thanks for your reply. I am not a specialist, but a read-only 
> >svn could (maybe) be the first step towards that direction 
> >without having to fear that there is too much confusion. Sorry 
> >for being that impatient, but could you tell us, what "midterm" means? 
> >I heard of potential programmers who are really willing to 
> >contribute, but who are not able to do so because of the 
> >current situation. Nevertheless, I m sure that the gvSIG-team 
> >took the right line with the decision to become part of the 
> >osgeo. FOSSGIS projects will become more sustainable and more 
> >powerful with that foundation as the basis.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Wolfgang
> >
> >-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> >> Datum: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:16:38 +0200
> >> Von: "Jorge Sanz" <jsanz at prodevelop.es>
> >> An: "Users and Developers mailing list" 
> >> <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
> >> Betreff: RE: [Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany
> >
> >> Hi Wolfgang
> >> 
> >> Your comments are more than welcomed, as always.
> >> 
> >> > -----Mensaje original-----
> >> > De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at runas.cap.gva.es
> >> [mailto:gvsig_internacional-
> >> > bounces at runas.cap.gva.es] En nombre de Wolfgang Qual Enviado el: 
> >> > viernes, 04 de abril de 2008 10:46
> >> > Para: gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es
> >> > Asunto: [Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany
> >> > 
> >> > Dear list,
> >> > just some short remarks on the FOSSGIS-Conference that took place 
> >> > the
> >> last days
> >> > in Freiburg/Germany (for details see --> 
> >http://www.fossgis.de). The
> >> conference
> >> > was very intersting: many new and thrilling projects were 
> >presented 
> >> > -
> >> FOSSGIS
> >> > becomes more and more interesting and important. I visited the
> >> sextante-workshop
> >> > and I have to say that I am really impressed by it's 
> >functionality. 
> >> > Many
> >> thanks
> >> > to Victor!
> >> > 
> >> > Regarding core-gvSIG: the project was mentioned very often, as
> >> organisations and
> >> > smaller offices are looking for a substitute of proprietary 
> >> > GIS-software
> >> and the
> >> > bundle of functionalities of gvSIG is very big. People really like 
> >> > the
> >> programme,
> >> > as it is very easy to handle.
> >> > This is one side.
> >> 
> >> Really pleased to listen that, SEXTANTE and gvSIG are 
> >growing fast and 
> >> it's encouraging to see how many people is looking what we are doing.
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > On the other side, people ask more and more about the status of 
> >> > gvSIG's
> >> way to
> >> > become an osgeo-project. Are there any news about the incubation 
> >> > status
> >> of the
> >> > project (--> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Status)?
> >> > Especially, people asked:
> >> > * what about a public SVN/CVS-repository?
> >> > * When will this repository be available? And:
> >> > * How can developers contribute (self-developed code/functions) to
> >> gvSIG?
> >> >   - When will it be possible for external developers to write 
> >> > extensions
> >> and
> >> > other contributions for this great project?
> >> > Today, the source code of gvSIG is available for download, 
> >but it is 
> >> > so
> >> important
> >> > to open it more to the public (by creating a svn-repository). 
> >> > Everyone
> >> is
> >> > yearning to see those things happen.
> >> > Maybe we can start a discussion on this. The FOSSGIS 
> >clearly showed 
> >> > the importance of these issues.
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> About the SVN, and in my opinion, I think we will have a public svn 
> >> repository on midterm, but obviously I can't give dates. We need to 
> >> assure that we (the gvSIG team) have the proper infrastructures to 
> >> open the svn's and to don't stop the full-time developers working. 
> >> It's so important that we have to do that carefully and well 
> >planned. 
> >> I must say that we have that in mind for many time and we 
> >want to do it, but step by step.
> >> 
> >> It has been always the aim of the project (and maybe it 
> >differentiates 
> >> it from other FOSS projects) to have first a wide community 
> >of users, 
> >> and give them all the tools they need (like these mailing lists, 
> >> tutorials and user
> >> docs) and after that we knew that the developers would 
> >arrive as it's 
> >> happening.
> >> 
> >> With the opening of the developers docs section on the new website 
> >> (which we need to translate into English, I know) we are 
> >just giving a 
> >> very valuable for the developers. Moreover, wanting to become a full 
> >> graduated project in OSGeo shows the intention of opening 
> >the project 
> >> to the community is in our minds.
> >> 
> >> Developers can participate sending bugs and patches to this list and 
> >> they are always welcomed and very appreciated.
> >> 
> >> We are working now to offer a public repository of contributed 
> >> extensions on the downloads area of the new website. This 
> >will act as 
> >> a public catalog of official and un-official contributions not only 
> >> for extensions but also for example for catalogs of north 
> >arrows (like 
> >> the one recently included in the 1.1.2 release) sets of 
> >icons, whatever.
> >> 
> >> I hope we will have this catalog soon, in fact the infrastructure to 
> >> provide it is being tested right now.
> >> 
> >> Bes regards and again, thanks for your comments!!!
> >> --
> >> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> >> Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
> >> Prodevelop S.L. - Valencia - España
> >> Tlf.:  96.351.06.12 - Fax:   96.351.09.68 
> >> jsanz[en]prodevelop[punto]es
> >> http://www.prodevelop.es
> >> 
> >> 
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