[gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !

[Abhay]

Great going!!

Thank you Frank, Even and all for the wonderful core technology that keeps
us going. :)

Rgds,

Abhay.

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 10:07 PM Asmita Amol Wankhede <
asmitawankhede at gmail.com> wrote:

> Blessed to have such a strong open source community! Happy birthday GDAL!
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 8:41 AM Kralidis, Tom (EC) <tom.kralidis at canada.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to all of the GDAL community for this milestone!
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>> From: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Frank
>> Warmerdam
>> Sent: October 18, 2018 10:55
>> To: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
>> Cc: gdal dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL !
>>
>> Even,
>>
>> Wow, 20 years!  Thanks for pointing out this milestone.
>>
>> It is a huge pleasure to know that:
>>  - it has been a core technology supporting so many other software
>> packages and projects
>>  - it has been a project that lots of people have felt comfortable
>> contributing to
>>
>> GDAL is the core of our data processing pipeline at Planet where we have
>> a number of esoteric internal GDAL drivers, so I continue to use it every
>> day.
>>
>> Special thanks to Even who's outsize contribution has kept the project
>> healthy and progressing as I focused on other activities.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:51 PM Even Rouault <mailto:
>> 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 <mailto: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 ...
>>
>> --
>> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services
>> http://www.spatialys.com
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, mailto:
>> warmerdam at pobox.com
>> light and sound - activate the windows |
>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer
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