[OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS vs OpenJump

[Landon Blake]

Faheed:

I'm involved in the development of OpenJUMP and will try to answer a couple of your questions.

Faheed wrote: "I also want to know why OpenJump was not accepted by osgeo."

There isn't any blame to place on OSGeo. There are a couple of reasons why OpenJUMP isn't an OSGeo project, but the main reason is a lack of resources to get through the incubation process. There are currently about 4 people involved with programming/administering OpenJUMP in a semi-regular basis. Our project administrator (Stefan) is a very busy professor, our best programmer (Larry) works for a busy company, our second best programmer (Michael) has moved onto other projects and only helps out because he has mercy on our poor souls, and I just work on OpenJUMP as a hobby.

So there is no one working on OpenJUMP full time. I suspect I'm as involved as anyone, and I'd say I only rack about 8 to 16 hours a month. About ½ of that is slinging code, the other ½ is responding to questions on our mailing lists.

It's hard to justify getting through the hoops for OSGeo incubation when you can barely keep up with the bug reports. It's something we've discussed as an OpenJUMP community several times, but everytime we conclude we lack the resources to make the migration successfully.

If you are really interested in porting GRASS functionality to OpenJUMP, you should subscribe to our developer's mailing list:


I will respond to any specific questions about OpenJUMP programming there. Of course, there are lots of ways to help, not just porting GRASS functionality. We need to test OpenJUMP on the LiveDVD, and write the OpenJUMP LiveDVD documentation. There are also lots of little bugs to squish.

Of course, if you have a strong interest in seeing OpenJUMP become an OSGeo project, and can but some effort into that, we could reconsider our earlier decision to not start the incubation process.

Landon
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] GRASS vs OpenJump

Hi all ,
     
     I recently viewed OpenJump application written in JAVA which is also a GIS software but have less features when compared to GRASS GIS. What my plan is to contribute modules of  GRASS GIS written in C/Python to OpenJump written in Java. Does osgeo or any grass developers have any objection in copying the code (mean the idea of making modules) to other OpenSource software like OpenJump. I do not mean of copying the whole code as same to java. What is my part of contribution is porting C/C++/Python code to Java and making some hacks on source code. 

I also want to know why OpenJump was not accepted by osgeo.

Any sugeestion and comments are really welcomed..



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