[Live-demo] New apps to be included in OSGeo-Live 6.5?

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Cameron,

Comments inline:

On 01/08/2013 12:27 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> By my calculations, I think we have the following new applications for 
> osgeo-live 6.5:
>
> * cartaro:
> * i3geo
> * ncwms
> * tilemill
> * eoxserver
> * (have I missed any?)
ncwms has not submitted an installation script so I guess it is moved to 
7.0.
>
> Angelos, I understand from you that they have all been installed 
> successfully and seem to be running?
> Also, we are within our maximum ISO image size?

I forgot to mention that on my e-mail, our current mini iso is 3.5G 
which is the near the upper limit in order to create a bootable USB stick.
>
> If so, I suggest that all these apps should be installed on our next 
> OSGeoLive 6.5 release, although we will make a few of the new 
> applications hard to find until they have become more established. Ie, 
> a couple of the new projects won't be mentioned in the docs contents 
> page:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
I remember that in the past, all apps that were not included in the docs 
were not installed in the live but their installation scripts were 
available to use in the VM. I am not sure we should change that. If we 
feel that a project is not ready for prime time, perhaps it should stay 
in beta for 6 months...

I suggest to make some strict testing of all new applications according 
to their Quickstart guide, and make the decision about beta/installed 
then. If docs are not provided in time then the project stays in beta 
for now.

Thoughts?
>
> Here is my suggested breakdown for what is/is not visible in the docs:
> cartaro:
> * Has not reached stable 1.0 yet, but is looking promising, so docs 
> won't be referenced from our main contents for 6.5 release.
>
> i3geo
> * included if docs written in time.
>
> ncwms
> * included if docs written in time.
>
> tilemill
> * included if docs written in time.
>
> eoxserver
> * included (docs already written)
>
>


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Angelos Tzotsos
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National Technical University of Athens
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