[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[Mateusz Loskot]

Happy Birthday GDAL!


GDAL is an important project for me personally.
Back in 2006, a completely accidental chat with Frank Warmerdam on IRC
led me to change my job - in January 2007 I became GDAL paid maintainer -
and sequence of events that followed led to a significant change of my
professional career.

Thanks Frank and all the members of the GDAL Team and Community!

Best regards,
Mateusz

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 03:51, 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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