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<p>Dear OSGeoLive team, <br>
</p>
<p>we contact you to kindly propose the inclusion of the <span
lang="en-US"><span style="background:transparent">ETF testing
framework
</span></span> in the OSGeoLive distribution.<br>
Following the requirements, please find below the answer to the
required questions.<br>
Please let us know if any additional clarification is needed.<br>
</p>
<p>Thank you in advance</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Please describe your application. </b>
<ul>
<li><b>What is its name? </b>
<ul>
<li>ETF<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"></span><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>What is the home page URL? </b>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://etf-validator.net/__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1On0UqAiU$"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_moz-txt-link-freetext">http://etf-validator.net</a> and<span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</span><a href="https://github.com/etf-validator"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk572309"><span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://github.com/etf-validator</span></a><span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></span><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Which <a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://opensource.org/licenses__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OXB4gFIA$"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_external x_x_text">
OSI approved Open Source Licence</a> is used? </b>
<ul>
<li><span lang="en-US"><span
style="background:transparent">The</span></span><span
lang="en-US"><span style="background:transparent"> ETF
testing framework
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span
style="background:transparent">is</span></span><span
lang="en-US"><span style="background:transparent"> an
open source project licensed under EUPL v.1.2,
please see it in the main
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://etf-validator.net/__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1On0UqAiU$"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
webpage </a>and in the <a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/etf-validator/etf-webapp/blob/master/LICENSE__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OzRXGAWQ$"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
source code</a>.</span></span> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>What does the application do and how does it add value
to the GeoSpatial stack of software?
</b>
<ul>
<li>It is an open source testing framework that allows
validating spatial data, metadata and web services in
Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) according to defined
Abstract Test Suites and Executable Test Suites.
Executing these validations may increase the level of
interoperability of SDIs by improving the compliance of
geospatial data, metadata and services.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>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.
</b>
<ul>
<li>The ETF testing framework allows GIS data providers
and solution providers to check whether data sets,
network services and metadata meet the requirements
defined on specific Abstract and Executable Test Suites.
<span>The concepts in ETF are based on ISO 19105 and the
OGC Specification Model which underpin the standards
used in SDIs.</span><br>
</li>
<li>Validation capabilities span a wide range of OGC
standards. For example, tests to validate WMS, WMTS,
WFS, WCS, SOS and CSW are available, which are also
partially reusing the OGC TEAM Engine suite.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>What language is it written in? </b>
<ul>
<li>Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Which version of the application should be included in
the next OSGeo-Live release?
</b>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ETF
2.0</span><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>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):
</b>
<ul>
<li><b>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? </b>
<ul>
<li>European Commission, <span>Joint Research Centre</span>
(use of the ETF testing framework as the core component
of the INSPIRE Reference Validator)<br>
</li>
<li>Organisations in several EU Member States at the
national and regional level (using the ETF testing
framework to replicate the tests of the INSPIRE
Reference Validator and/or extending these tests to
include tests to check compliance with national
requirements)<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.openhub.net/__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OtMqComw$"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_external x_x_text">Open HUB</a> provides
metrics to help assess the health of a project. Eg: <a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OvPpGSUg$"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_external x_x_free x_x_moz-txt-link-freetext">
http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html</a> Could you
please ensure that your project is registered with Open
HUB, and Open HUB has been updated to reference the
correct code repository(s) for your project. What is the
Open HUB URL for your project? </b></li>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openhub.net/p/etf-validator">https://www.openhub.net/p/etf-validator</a></li>
</ul>
<li><b>What is the size of the user community? You can often
answer this by mentioning downloads, or describing a
healthy, busy email list?
</b>
<ul>
<li>There is a mature user community developed around the
main implementations of the ETF testing framework. For
example, the number of downloads of the INSPIRE
Reference Validator (the most popular
implemetation of the ETF) is approximately between 1 and
3 hundreds for each release (see <a
href="https://hanadigital.github.io/grev/?user=etf-validator&repo=etf-webapp"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk466058">
https://hanadigital.github.io/grev/?user=etf-validator&repo=etf-webapp</a>)
and the discussions in the issue tracker demonstrate the
healthy and busy user community (see
<a
href="https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/helpdesk-validator/issues/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink moz-txt-link-freetext"
id="LPlnk680062">
https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/helpdesk-validator/issues/</a>).<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>What is the size of your developer community? </b>
<ul>
<li>Currently, the developer community is mainly limited
to the two organisations which are funding the
development of the ETF, i.e. the European Commission and
interactive instruments (<a
href="https://www.interactive-instruments.de/en"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink moz-txt-link-freetext"
id="LPlnk903024">https://www.interactive-instruments.de/en</a>).
Sometimes, developers from organisations deploying the
ETF at their premise contribute code with ad hoc pull
requests. Funding to improve the developer community is
currently available and the submission of the ETF to the
OSGeoLive is one of the steps to increase such
community.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Do you have a bug free, stable release? </b>
<ul>
<li>Yes, ETF 2.0 is the latest stable release: <a
href="https://github.com/etf-validator/etf-webapp/releases/tag/2.0.0"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink moz-txt-link-freetext"
id="LPlnk757672">
https://github.com/etf-validator/etf-webapp/releases/tag/2.0.0</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Please discuss the level of testing that your project
has gone through. </b>
<ul>
<li>The ETF has a continuous integration cycle established
in the GitHub repository, where contributions to the
source code (which have to adhere to the
<a
href="https://github.com/etf-validator/governance/blob/master/TOR/Contribution.md"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink">
contribution guidelines</a>) pass through automatic
validations. Subsequently, the changes are manually
reviewed and approved by the
<a
href="https://github.com/etf-validator/governance/blob/master/TOR/Technical_Committee.adoc"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink">
ETF Technical Committee</a>.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>How long has the project has had mature code. </b>
<ul>
<li>The project is active since 2007 (see <a
href="https://github.com/etf-validator/etf-webapp/releases"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink moz-txt-link-freetext"
id="LPlnk490269">
https://github.com/etf-validator/etf-webapp/releases</a>);
the latest stable release (v.2.0) was released in 2019.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>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.)
</b>
<ul>
<li>Yes, the ETF testing framework has a user interface.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects
which are presented at
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://foss4g.org__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OHj1k4aA$"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_external x_x_text">
FOSS4G</a> conferences. If your project is involved in OSGeo
Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G,
then please mention it.
</b>
<ul>
<li>The ETF was already presented at FOSS4G conferences:
<ul>
<li>FOSS4G 2019:<span style="font-weight:bold"> INSPIRE
Reference Validator: status and next steps
</span>by Marco Minghini, Michael Lutz, Clemens Portele,
Jon Herrmann, Enrique Soriano, Carlos Palma, Iñaki Díaz
de Cerio Paniagua, Belén Sáez, Lorena Hernandez, Daniele
Francioli, Fabio Vinci</li>
<li>FOSS4G 2021: <b>Open source geospatial software
powering policy implementation: the INSPIRE central
infrastructure components</b> by
<span class="x_answer">Marco Minghini, Alexander Kotsev,
Vlado Cetl, Lorena Hernandez, Michael Lutz, Daniele
Francioli, Davide Artasensi, Emanuela Epure, Fabio
Vinci, Fabiano Spinelli, Lukasz Ziemba (<a
href="https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/ZKRWYN/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
class="x_OWAAutoLink moz-txt-link-freetext"
id="LPlnk352755">https://callforpapers.2021.foss4g.org/foss4g2021/talk/ZKRWYN/</a>)</span></li>
<li><span class="x_answer">FOSS4G 2022: <b><span>ETF
testing framework: past, present and future</span>
</b>by </span>Jon Herrmann, Marco Minghini, Clemens
Portele, <span class="x_answer">
Michael Lutz (submitted and currently under review)</span><span
class="x_answer"></span><span class="x_answer"></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>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.
</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enrique
Soriano (jenriquesoriano at guadaltel.com) and José
Barrero (josebarrero at guadaltel.com)</span><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><b>OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation
preference is: </b>
<ol>
<li>Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS </li>
<li>Install .deb files from a PPA </li>
<li>Write a custom install script<=== preferred option<b><br>
</b></li>
</ol>
<b>Can you please discuss how your application will be
installed. </b>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Write
a custom install script</span><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the
application run in 512 Meg of RAM?
</b>
<ul>
<li>No. A machine with at least 4 GB Ram (8GB are recommended,
16 GB and more if a large set of XML files are tested)<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>How much disk space will be required to install the
application and a suitable example application?
</b>
<ul>
<li>It depends on the tests executed, but 1 GB HDD can be
enough.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>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:
</b></li>
<li><b>Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview
available under a <a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OYJp5E24$"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_external x_x_text">
CC By</a> and a Quickstart available under a <a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/__;!!DOxrgLBm!UvR1kftQcLgI0pIHnKKusY23bweSMhF9CdWZjAsWPgY49H9cK9Rs5HIqNIO4Ob1OtUoN0gs$"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="x_x_external x_x_text">
CC By-SA</a> license. (You may release under a second
license as well). Will you produce this?
</b>
<ul>
<li>Yes<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>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?
</b>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No</span><br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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