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<p>+0 Cameron</p>
<p>I don't know anything about Actinia beyond this application form,
however I believe in supporting it based on:</p>
<p>1. All questions in the application address OSGeoLive goals
appropriately.</p>
<p>2. I hold a lot of faith in Markus personally. He is a long
standing OSGeo community leader, who demonstrates by example what
is required to make a successful open source project. Having him
stand behind the project gives me a lot of confidence.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/7/19 6:44 pm, Angelos Tzotsos
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thank you Marcus for your e-mail.
<div>Actinia seems to be a great fit to the OSGeoLive disk.</div>
<div>Here is my +1 to include Actinia.</div>
<div>I have already made some comments on what needs to be
changed in the installer and I am willing to help with the
packaging tasks.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Angelos</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:08
AM Markus Neteler <<a href="mailto:neteler@mundialis.de"
moz-do-not-send="true">neteler@mundialis.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi all,<br>
<br>
we hereby propose "actinia" for inclusion in OSGeo-live:<br>
<br>
<br>
<i><b>Describe of the application:</b></i><br>
<br>
What is its name? <br>
<b>actinia<br>
</b><br>
<i>What is the home page URL?</i><br>
<ul>
<li><a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://actinia.mundialis.de/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://actinia.mundialis.de/</a></li>
<li><a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/</a></li>
</ul>
<i>Which </i><i><a rel="nofollow"
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883external
gmail-m_4025823222583547883text"
href="http://opensource.org/licenses" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">OSI approved Open Source Licence</a></i><i>
is used?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>GPL-3</li>
</ul>
<i>What does the application do and how does it add value to
the GeoSpatial stack of software?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>actinia is an open source REST API for scalable,
distributed, high performance processing of geographical
data that uses mainly GRASS GIS for computational tasks.
Besides that, also further OSGeo related software and
other open source analysis tools can be used.</li>
</ul>
<i>Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which
versions of the standards? Client or server? You may wish
to add comments about how standards are used.</i><br>
<ul>
<li>actinia core offers the possibility to extend it with
plugins. The actinia-gdi plugin (<a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia-gdi/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia-gdi/</a>)
helps integrating actinia-core in an existing GDI, e.g.
to communicate with GeoNetwork.</li>
</ul>
<i>What language is it written in?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>Python-3</li>
</ul>
<i>Which version of the application should be included in
the next OSGeo-Live release?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>The current "latest".</li>
</ul>
<br>
<i> Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a
new user finds a bug in one application, it will tarnish
the reputation of all other OSGeo-Live applications as
well. (We pay most attention to the following answers): </i><br>
<br>
<i>If risk adverse organisations have deployed your
application into production, it would imply that these
organisations have verified the stability of your
software. Has the application been rolled out to
production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations?
Please mention some of these organisations?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>At time a major German telekommunication company is
using actinia in a cloud based massive data processing
roll-out. At FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest some related
presentations will be given.</li>
<li>Besides that, actinia is the backend of the openEO
GRASS GIS driver (<a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://openeo.org/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://openeo.org/</a>, a
H2020 EU project | <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-grassgis-driver" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-grassgis-driver</a>).<br>
</li>
</ul>
<i>What is the Open HUB URL for your project?</i><br>
<ul>
<li><a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.openhub.net/p/actinia_core/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openhub.net/p/actinia_core/</a></li>
</ul>
<i>What is the size of the user community? You can often
answer this by mentioning downloads, or describing a
healthy, busy email list?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>The actinia community is very young and yet hard to
measure. Some stats are available from <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/graphs/traffic"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/graphs/traffic</a></li>
</ul>
<i>What is the size of your developer community?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>Three core devs + some infrequent contributors.</li>
</ul>
<i>Do you have a bug free, stable release?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>There is no bugfree software :-)<br>
Yes, a stable release is available from <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tags"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tags</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<i>Please discuss the level of testing that your project has
gone through.</i><br>
<ul>
<li>A notable test set is included, see <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tree/master/tests"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tree/master/tests</a>
.</li>
<li>The deployment of actinia has been tested with
Openstack as well as CI/CD pipelines in Openshift.
Furthermore several deployments are running with
docker-swarm. Dockerfiles for development and for
production are available from <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tree/master/docker"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tree/master/docker</a></li>
<li>Importantly, we use CI/CD pipelines for testing during
deployment.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<i>How long has the project has had mature code.</i><br>
<ul>
<li>The core of actinia has been used in production since
end of 2016 (back then named GRaaS - GRASS GIS as a
Service) as a backend in a Sentinel-2 metadata processor
operated for ESA
(<a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/-/filter-sentinel-2a-scenes-with-the-new-release-of-eo-me"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/-/filter-sentinel-2a-scenes-with-the-new-release-of-eo-me</a>).</li>
</ul>
<i>OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can
use rather than libraries. Does the application have a
user interface (possibly a command line interface) that a
user can interact with? (We do make an exception for
Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project
Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't have a
user interface.)</i><br>
<ul>
<li>Since actinia offers a REST API, there is no
interactive user interface per se. However, a few
options are there (see also the actinia docs):</li>
<ul>
<li>use curl (yes, cmd line is also a nice user
interface, <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://actinia.mundialis.de/tutorial/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://actinia.mundialis.de/tutorial/</a>)<br>
</li>
<li>Postman extension for Chrome</li>
<li>actinia command execution (ace, <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/scripts/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/scripts/</a>)</li>
<li>more to come<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<i> We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or
Projects which are presented at </i><i><a rel="nofollow"
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883external
gmail-m_4025823222583547883text"
href="http://foss4g.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">FOSS4G</a></i><i> conferences. If
your project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been
selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then please mention
it.</i><br>
<ul>
<li>actinia is an OSGeo community project since 2019: <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/actinia/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/actinia/</a></li>
</ul>
<i><b> </b></i><i>With around 50 applications installed on
OSGeo-Live, us core packagers do not have the time to
liaise with every single project email list for each
OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and
the project's communities. This volunteer will be
responsible for ensuring the install scripts and English
documentation are updated by someone for each OSGeo-Live
release. Also test that the installed application and
Quickstart documentation works as expected on release
candidate releases of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the
project's liaison person.</i><br>
<ul>
<li>Markus Neteler<br>
</li>
</ul>
<i>Can you please discuss how your application will be
installed:</i><br>
<ul>
<li>We have developed an installer script: The pull
request of installer script is at<br>
<a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/266"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/266</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<i> OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the
application run in 512 Meg of RAM?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>No problem.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<i> How much disk space will be required to install the
application and a suitable example application?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>The Python scripts are consuming 17MB. The backend
GRASS GIS + GDAL + dependencies are already present on
OSGeo-live.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<i>We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications
make use of a common dataset. We encourage applications to
make use of the example datasets already installed:</i><i><a
rel="nofollow"
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883external
gmail-m_4025823222583547883free"
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><br>
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets</a></i><i>
If another dataset would be more appropriate, please
discuss here. Is it appropriate, to remove existing demo
datasets which may already be included in the standard
release.</i><br>
<ul>
<li>The North Carolina dataset is fine.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<i> Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview
available under a </i><i><a rel="nofollow"
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883external
gmail-m_4025823222583547883text"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">CC By</a></i><i>
and a Quickstart available under a </i><i><a
rel="nofollow"
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883external
gmail-m_4025823222583547883text"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">CC By-SA</a></i><i>
license. (You may release under a second license as well).
Will you produce this?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>Sure: <a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/455"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/455</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<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/or
Mac installers?</i><br>
<ul>
<li>No thanks, not needed here.</li>
</ul>
<p>best regards,</p>
<p>Markus</p>
<p>(on behalf of the actinia team)</p>
<p>-- <br>
Markus Neteler<br>
<a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mundialis.de" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.mundialis.de</a> -
free data with free software<br>
<a
class="gmail-m_4025823222583547883moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grass.osgeo.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://grass.osgeo.org</a><br>
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