[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi gdal-devs,

Many thanks for your efforts in the past years - it is much appreciated!

Many people don't realize that they use your software (behind the 
scenes) on every work day ...

It is nice to be able to use your drivers and utilities and build 
something on top of it - without restrictions!

Greetings,

Andreas


Am 18.10.2018 um 09:23 schrieb 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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