[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[David Fawcett]

Thank you Frank, Even, and everyone else who has contributed. 

GDAL is at the heart of most open source and proprietary GIS systems!

> On Oct 17, 2018, at 8:51 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I nearly missed it [1] (actually I'm already on the 18th here, but let's consider
> Canadian time so still on the 17th), but exactly 20 years go on Oct 17th 1998,
> Frank Warmerdam committed for the first time in the CSV repository.
> 
> '''
> commit 149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552
> Author: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> Date:   Sat Oct 17 19:24:36 1998 +0000
> 
>    Initial implementation.
> 
> 
>    git-svn-id: https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk@2 f0d54148-0727-0410-94bb-9a71ac55c965
> '''
> 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552
> 
> 169 lines for a first version of the virtual I/O layer...
> 
> Since then,
> * 39075 commits have been added on top of it,
> * 159 raster drivers
> * 96 vector drivers [2]
> * by 161 committers (actually there are more contributors, here just counting
>  the ones who have directly authored a CVS, SVN or git commit),
> * adding 7110 files in the repository, for a grand total of
> * 2.192 millions lines in 3745 files with extensions c, cpp, h, hh, hpp, py,
>  html, java, cs, i, pl, vc, sh, bat, dox, ac, GNUmakefile (80 MB) (all the text files)
>  so an average of 300 lines per day added
> * 64 releases
> * 6287 tickets closed
> * 49097 messages posted on gdal-dev
> * more than 100 software proudly mentionning using it
> 
> Happy birthday and long life to GDAL and its commmnity of contributors, either
> by code, documentation, testing, packaging, reports, ... !
> 
> Even
> 
> [1] thanks to Robert Coup for reminding me a few days ago about the approaching date !
> [2] you'll note that 155 + 96 = 255, but I don't think there's a
>    Byte limitation for the number of drivers ...
> 
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