[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 2.0 and sextante?

[Fernando González]

Hi Álvaro, I only want to counterargument two or your arguments:

- the bus factor[1] of SEXTANTE is not as high as you think. Indeed,
Ben Ducke is working hard on it and he was not involved at the
beginning of the project, and this is meaningful. Additionally to the
number of developers, the complexity of the software has to be taken
into account and SEXTANTE is indeed quite simple. Finally, the work
required in SEXTANTE now is mainly maintenance and improving the
connections with grass (actually Ben's work).

- Arguing that the code is hosted in gvSIG CE repository sounds weird.
In the end the code is hosted at sourceforge and we haven't denied yet
anyone of write access that I know.

Cheers.



[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Alvaro Anguix <aanguix at gvsig.com> wrote:
> Hello Wolfgang,
>
> Allow me to dedicate some lines to answer you to explain the current
> situation and the planned one at the gvSIG Association in reference to
> the geoprocessing manager in gvSIG.
>
> The geoprocessing tools are a very important part of a GIS. Until the
> 1.x version gvSIG included two geoprocessing managers, one of them was
> belonging to gvSIG and the other one was the Sextante library, together
> with other geoproceses available for the user from several menus/buttons.
>
> On one hand, in order to improve the usability that we started in gvSIG
> 2.0, we dealt with the option to have an unified geoprocessing manager,
> where the user can find any geoprocess available in gvSIG. And our first
> objective, from the point of view of the product, we had to include all
> the geoprocessing tools of the gvSIG 1.x versions for the users. For
> that, in gvSIG 2.0 you can find the geoprocessing tools from the "old"
> gvSIG geoprocessing manager (clip, buffer, union...), the raster
> geoprocesses of gvSIG, and the geoprocessing tools from the Sextante
> library.
>
> On the other hand, we had to solve the technical issues attending to a
> main element for us, not only technical, and it's the issue that I think
> it can explain the current situation better and where we want to go to.
> The dependency of a library maintained almost in an individual mode is
> always a risk, in its evolution we can see that the person who maintains
> it currently is doing it voluntarily -not in its java version- and he
> specified that he abandoned it. Also the maintenance of its java version
> is transferred to a fork of gvSIG that has a dynamics very different to
> our ones in reference to the software development, and that doesn't take
> care of past requests as basic (in my opinion) as they change its name
> and don't use the "gvSIG" word. Apart from the path followed by Sextante
> as a project/s, some decisions were taken previously -by one or the
> other part- that were making difficult the collaboration. For us some
> important decision like the change of the license or the integration on
> ArcGIS led us to take decisions for not spending in Sextante and that
> any geoprocess that we develop on gvSIG was always licensed GPL.
>
> At this way, the collaboration between gvSIG and Sextante has been more
> complicated to carry out and the interpretations about how to develop an
> open source project have taken different ways. All of them lawful and
> respectable, of course. But this general outlook was analysed by us
> attending mainly to the project that we want to build, more over the
> product.
>
> We return to the main factor to solve. With the objective to build a
> professional software development model, it was non-viable to have a
> dependency with the aforementioned conditions. Our goal is to solve this
> dependency and to be independent to progress the gvSIG geoprocessing
> manager attending to our needs as a project and, in conclusion, the
> needs of our community. Our first step, returning to the beginning, is
> that the users had the geoprocessing tools in gvSIG 2.0 from the beginning.
>
> Best,
> Alvaro
>
> El 03/06/13 17:13, Wolfgang Qual escribió:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> does anybody know whether sextante will be included in gvSIG 2.0?
>> I am a bit worried since I read that sextante seems to concentrate on qgis
>> now [1].
>> Any comments are appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>> Wolfgang
>>
>> [1] http://www.sextantegis.com/java.html
>>
>>
>>
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