[Ubuntu] Google Summer of Code Satus

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Jerome,

First of all thanks for all that was done!

Just a remark, not only for you: release 14.04 of ubuntu will be the next
LTS version. Any packages that are now in good shape in ubuntugis  should
find their way to debian unstable as soon as possible. That way, they will
be included in ubuntu (universe) release 14.04. Having packages in
ubuntugis is nice, having them in ubuntu and debian is even better
(especially for libraries).

If I were to choose priorities for your work next weeks this would be
number one for me.

Johan


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche <
jlarouche at mapgears.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As most of you know, I've been working on UbuntuGIS under the GSoC
> program, it's been going pretty well, but maybe not enough. I'm currently
> at week 11 out of 13 and there is still many things to be done.
> This email is to make a small report of what I've done and what needs to
> be done next.
>
> At week 11:
> ---------------
> What is done:
>
>  * All package in UbuntuGIS for Lucid, Precise, Quantal and Raring are
> updated to their latest version.
>  * New LibLAS package with python binding (no LASzip)
>  * New marble-qt package, install Marble without the KDE deps.
>  * Fixed the bugs caused by the libgdal1h update.
>  * Added the new libgeotiff package (1.4.0)
>  * Updated the libgdal-ecw-src pacakge to compile with the new ECW 5.0 SDK
> (there's still an issue with this one)
>
> Issues:
>
>  * The many issues caused by the libgdal1h seem to be fixed.
>  * Same thing with the issues caused by the new package name in Postgis.
>  * There is currently a problem with the new Libgdal-ecw-src package when
> trying to use Python-gdal and ECW support,I'm currently working on it, but
> if you have any idea what may cause the undefined symbol error, please post
> in this ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/**ubuntugis/ticket/34<http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/ticket/34>
>
> Java Packaging:
>
>  * Looked into packaging Geotools, but it doesn't seem possible to do it
> in the time frame I have.
>  * Tried to package the latest version of Osmosis to learn a bit more
> about Java Packages but I ran into problem while trying to compile it and
> its new build method doesn't seem to be supported for package, so I moved
> on.
>
> Suggestions (Improvement for UbuntuGIS):
>
>  * Make a new SAGA package.
>  * Create a new plugin similar to the ECW, but for Oracle support for
> Mapserver and GDAL, will start working on it soon.
>
> Other:
>
>  * Create a new repository in Debian for people who don't want to use
> Unstable but still need the latest GIS softwares.
>  * Complete new documentation for UbuntuGIS.
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> UbuntuGIS mailing list
> Ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/**ubuntugis/wiki<http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ubuntu/attachments/20130820/40316a0a/attachment.html>