[Gdal-dev] GDAL maintenance biweekly report - No. 1

[Mateusz Loskot]

Hi,

This is first biweekly report from GDAL maintenance


Resolved issues:
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[Bug 1429] VSI*L and "errno" setting.
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429

[Bug 1430] New: [GDAL] ODBC postgresql information schema problems
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430

[Bug 1431] Bug, PostgreSQL driver  -lco LAUNDER=YES
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1431

[Bug 1472] Disabling SEQSCAN is now a *bad* idea.
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472

[Bug 1474] PostGIS fetches 1 at a time
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474

[Bug 1508] configure should check for Python.h before enabling Python
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508

[Bug 1514] Query results not cleaned in Soft Transactions of PG
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514

[Bug 1516] LANDSAT 7 FAST read problems (finally fixed by Andrey)
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516

[Bug 1521] New: Delete feature - .dbf file getting deleted
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521

[Bug 1524] New: Fail to read case-sensitive shapefile names
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524

There were also a few minor issues resolved and some submissions not
reported on the Bugzilla. Detailed changesets are available on the Trac:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/timeline


Analysed and under discussion issues (not yet resolved):
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[Bug 543] OCI driver: getExtent should use USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543

[Bug 1248] Please add transaction support to ogr2ogr for the postgres driver
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248

[Bug 1445] GetFeature() not implemented efficiently for server based drivers
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445

[Bug 1476] Improper handling of Postgis tables with multiple geometry
columns
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476


Other activities:
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1. Updated documentation for drivers: ODBC, PGeo, PG

2. Added new tests to the GDAL autotest package:
- FAST

3. Added new test cases to:
- Shape
- AAIGrid

3. Started analysis of GDAL tests coverage:
http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/gdal/autotest-coverage.txt

4. Improved GDAL Buildbot configuration

5. Support on the gdal-dev list (~50 posts) and #gdal channel

6. TracWiki subjects proposal:
http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/gdal/gdal-tracwiki-proposal.txt

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net