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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Patric,<br>
I'm excited to see Cartaro applying for OSGeo-Live integration.<br>
I've reviewed your application, and think that it would be great
to see Cartaro included on OSGeo-Live at some point, but I'm
nervous about including it before it has reached a stable 1.0
version.<br>
<br>
I'll be interested to hear thoughts from other OSGeo-Live
packagers?<br>
<br>
What I would suggest is that for our 6.5 release, that you write
your installers for testing. We will probably ship the DVD with
Cartaro installed, but we just won't advertise this to the greater
OSGeo community until Cartaro reaches a stable 1.0 release
(probably in the OSGeo-Live 7.0 released for foss4g2013). <br>
<br>
Comments?<br>
<br>
On 10/12/2012 10:24 AM, Patric Hafner [geops.de] wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed;
font-size: 14px;" lang="x-western">Dear Members of the OSGeo
mailing list,
<br>
<br>
we would like to request the integration of "Cartaro Geospatial
CMS" to
<br>
the next OSGeo Live CD. The completed questionnaire is part of
this email.
<br>
<br>
Some month ago, Cameron Shorter contacted us. From the very
first we
<br>
liked the idea to be part of OSGeo Live CD. Now we are convinced
Cartaro
<br>
is stable enough for OSGeo Live CD.
<br>
<br>
As the milestones for next release are very close, we already
prepared
<br>
install scripts and documentation according the guidelines in
the wiki.
<br>
After your decision is made, we can commit very quickly.
<br>
<br>
We are looking forward to receiving your positive reply and we
hope to
<br>
be part of the project.
<br>
<br>
Please contact me if you have any questions.
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
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<br>
With best regards,
<br>
<br>
<br>
Patric Hafner
<br>
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OSGeo-Questions
<br>
Please describe your application.
<br>
<br>
- What is its name?
<br>
Cartaro
<br>
<br>
- What is the home page URL?
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cartaro.org">http://cartaro.org</a>
<br>
<br>
- Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
<br>
GPL v2
<br>
<br>
- What does the application do and how does it add value to
the
<br>
GeoSpatial stack of software?
<br>
Cartaro is the web mapping platform that brings the power of
the best
<br>
open source geospatial components into a content management
system. With
<br>
Cartaro you are able to set-up and run your own geo-enabled
and OGC
<br>
standards-compliant website with not more than a few clicks.
The
<br>
geospatial components used in Cartaro are PostGIS, GeoServer,
<br>
GeoWebCache and OpenLayers. All those are managed from within
the
<br>
powerful CMS Drupal.
<br>
Cartaro is for organisations and individuals that need to run
a
<br>
light-weight spatial data infrastructure (SDI) without the
need for
<br>
extensive configurations and much individual programming.
<br>
Cartaro is also for all websites that focus on CMS features
while also
<br>
having to handle geospatial data.
<br>
Most functions needed for a SDI come right out of the box
through the
<br>
close integration of Drupal with PostGIS and GeoServer.
<br>
The main features of Cartaro are:
<br>
* Spatial data storage with true geometry data types
<br>
* Creation of data types from within the Drupal GUI
<br>
* Integrated online editing of geospatial data
<br>
* Data publishing with integrated maps
<br>
* Configuration of map layouts and behaviors
<br>
* Symbol styling
<br>
* Data publishing through OGC standards-compliant web services
(OWS)
<br>
like WMS and WFS
<br>
* High performance map output through GeoWebCache
<br>
* Transparent privilege handling and security for all spatial
data
<br>
* Content publication workflow and revision moderation
<br>
* Basic metadata collection through access to GeoServer-GUI
<br>
* Full extensibility through thousands of Drupal modules or
individual
<br>
programming
<br>
<br>
- Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which
versions of the
<br>
standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments
about how
<br>
standards are used.
<br>
Cartaro makes use of OGC standards on the client and on the
server by
<br>
integrating GeoServer and OpenLayers. In particular WMS 1.1.1
and WFS
<br>
1.0 are supported.
<br>
<br>
-What language is it written in?
<br>
Mostly PHP as well as JavaScript and Java.
<br>
<br>
-Which version of the application should be included in the
next
<br>
OSGeo-Live release?
<br>
1.0-beta3
<br>
<br>
---------------
<br>
Stability
<br>
<br>
Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user
finds a
<br>
bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all
other
<br>
OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the
following
<br>
answers):
<br>
<br>
- If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application
into
<br>
production, it would imply that these organisations have
verified the
<br>
stability of your software. Has the application been rolled
out to
<br>
production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations?
Please
<br>
mention some of these organisations?
<br>
Cartaro has been used for lots of small non-profit projects so
far. A
<br>
large international company currently started using Cartaro
for production
<br>
<br>
- What is the size of the user community? You can often answer
this by
<br>
mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email
list?
<br>
Cartaro has been downloaded almost 2000 times since spring
2012.
<br>
<br>
- What is the size of your developer community?
<br>
About 5-10 developers.
<br>
<br>
- Do you have a bug free, stable release?
<br>
Cartaro is almost ready for a release candidate.
<br>
<br>
- Please discuss the level of testing that your project has
gone through.
<br>
Cartaro has gone through multiple beta releases tested by a
large user
<br>
base. All bugs reported are being fixed within short time,
usually after
<br>
not more than three days. For all development we use
continuous
<br>
integration with extensive unit tests in order to reduce the
risk of
<br>
bugs. Code quality is guaranteed by subjecting Cartaro to the
quality
<br>
assurance workflow of the Drupal community.
<br>
<br>
- How long has the project has had mature code.
<br>
Since summer 2012 the core parts of Cartaro haven't changed
much and can
<br>
be declared as mature code.
<br>
<br>
---------
<br>
<br>
Other
<br>
<br>
- OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use
rather than
<br>
libraries. Does the application have a user interface
(possibly a
<br>
command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do
make an
<br>
exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include
Project
<br>
Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't have a user
interface.)
<br>
Cartaro has a web-based user interface that builds upon and is
<br>
integrated into the user interface of Drupal
<br>
<br>
- We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects
which are
<br>
presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your project is involved
in OSGeo
<br>
Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G,
then please
<br>
mention it.
<br>
Cartaro is not yet involved in OSGeo Incubation. Cartaro has
an abstract
<br>
submitted for FOSSGIS 2013, the german-speaking OS GIS
conference.
<br>
Participation at one of the next FOSS4G conferences is
planned.
<br>
<br>
- With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
packagers
<br>
do not have the time to liaise with every single project email
list for
<br>
each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
take
<br>
responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the
project's
<br>
communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring
the install
<br>
scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for
each
<br>
OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application
and
<br>
Quickstart documentation works as expected on release
candidate releases
<br>
of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.
<br>
Contact persons are Patric Hafner <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:patric.hafner@geops.de"><patric.hafner@geops.de></a>
and Friedjoff
<br>
Trautwein <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:friedjoff.trautwein@geops.de"><friedjoff.trautwein@geops.de></a>
<br>
<br>
- OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation
preference is:
<br>
Write a custom install script
<br>
<br>
- Can you please discuss how your application will be
installed.
<br>
Download of tar - Archive and setup via drush (PHP-based
Drupal Installer)
<br>
<br>
- OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the
application run in
<br>
512 Meg of RAM?
<br>
Yes, without any problems.
<br>
<br>
- How much disk space will be required to install the
application and a
<br>
suitable example application?
<br>
about 70MB
<br>
<br>
- Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview
available
<br>
under a CC By and a Quickstart available under a CC By-SA
license. (You
<br>
may release under a second license as well). Will you produce
this?
<br>
Yes
<br>
<br>
- In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac
installers for some
<br>
applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in
future
<br>
releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to
include
<br>
Windows and/or Mac installers?
<br>
No
<br>
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Cameron Shorter
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