Hi,<br><br>I'm Víctor González and I'm currently working for the GGL2 project [1]. We would like to include it into the OSGeo Live DVD, so I have answered all the questions in the wiki [2] further down. Let me know if there is anything else that we need to do in order to include it.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance,<br>Víctor.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.gearscape.org">http://www.gearscape.org</a><br>[2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply</a><br>
<br>---------------------<br><i> * What is its name?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">GGL2
<br></div><i>* What is the home page URL?</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://www.gearscape.org">http://www.gearscape.org</a>
<br></div><i>* Which OSI approved Open Source License is used?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">GPLv3
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<i>* What does the application do and how does it add value to the GeoSpatial stack of software?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">The application provides a new geoprocessing language with specific constructions
to make geoprocessing creation more easy and reliable. It can be connected to
GIS applications such as gvSIG in order to get the data and show the results so it interacts
with some of the GeoSpatial stack of software in order to add new geoprocessing capabilities
(fast creation and execution of custom geo-algorithms).<br></div><i>* Which language is it written in?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px"> Java
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* Which version of the application should be included in the next OSGeo-Live release?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">GGL2 m3 (milestone 3)
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<i>* What is the size of the user community?</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">We had almost 500 downloads over the last two months. However, the mailing lists has
been recreated a few months ago and they are not really busy yet:
<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://ggl2-usuarios.1062791.n5.nabble.com">http://ggl2-usuarios.1062791.n5.nabble.com</a>
<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><a href="http://ggl2-users.1062796.n5.nabble.com">http://ggl2-users.1062796.n5.nabble.com</a>
<br></div></div><i>* What is the size of your developer community?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px"> We are two active developers.
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<i>* Do you have a bug free, stable release?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">Not yet. Bug fixing (<a href="http://xp-dev.com/trac/ggl2/report/1">http://xp-dev.com/trac/ggl2/report/1</a>) is the next step in our
roadmap and we plan to do so in the next few months, but the latest release (milestone 3)
is not intended for production scenarios.
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<i>* Please, discuss the level of testing that your project has gone through. How long has the project
has had mature code.
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">The application is based on the Eclipse platform, similiar to the uDig approach, so we can
trust on the platform stability. Apart of that, the GGL2 code running on top of that platform reuses
some code from the previous GGL version, which was stable. Moreover, we have over 300 tests checking
the code correction and stability.
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<i>* Does the application have a user interface that a user can interact with?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">Yes, the user interface is inherited from the Eclipse platform.
<br></div><i>* Who will act as the project's liaison person?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px"> I will play that role.
<br></div><i>* Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">Just like Eclipse, simply unzip the package. If gvSIG is installed, unzip the plugin
into the gvSIG extensions directory and we're ready to go.
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<i>* Can the application run in 512M of RAM?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">The minimum required memory to run the application is 128M, so yes, it can. However, it will require more
memory for geoprocessing. Whether 512M is enough or not will depend on the geoprocess algorithm and data.
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<i>* How much disk space will be required to install the application and a suitable example application?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">Less than 200M.
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<i>* If another dataset would be more approriate, please discuss here</i>.
<br><div style="margin-left:40px">Maybe it will be interesting to have some CSV or GPX files to work with. We can include some simple
sample files in our own package/sample project and it will not exceed the 200M limit.<br></div><i>* Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available under a CC By and a Quickstart available
under a CC By-SA license. Will you produce this?
</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px"> Yes.<br></div><i>* In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for some applications. It is likely we won't have
space for these in future releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include Windows and Mac installers?</i><br><div style="margin-left:40px">It is not necessary.
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