[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.5 Status: Beta

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your testing.
Trac was mentioned in case an error or a bug was found.

Cheers,
Angelos

On 01/12/2013 06:51 PM, Jim Klassen wrote:
> I have verified GeoMoose passes its Quickstart on the 6.5beta1 ISO.
>
> I have updated the status in [6], but found no example tickets in [5] to use as a template.
>
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>
>> Hi all, and happy new year!
>>
>> We are pleased to announce that the development of OSGeoLive 6.5 is now in beta stage, according to our schedule [1].
>> You can download the first beta here: [2] (soon to be mirrored here: [3])
>> Full change log: [4]
>>
>> All the major bugs/issues that were reported [5] during the alpha stage were fixed and the distribution is already very stable.
>> We would like to thank all the contributors that stepped up and committed fixes the last couple of months.
>>
>> Our next major milestone (RC1) is planned for 29 Jan, and for this plan to be successful, the following steps are needed:
>>
>> 1. We kindly request all projects that are included in OSGeoLive to test this first beta and make a complete run of their Quickstart guide. We feel that if a user fails to complete a Quickstart guide, this would reflect badly to the project and the live disk, so we need to run a full round of QA at this stage. Please report your findings through Trac [5] and status spreadsheet [6]
>>
>> 2. We kindly request all new projects to provide a draft version of their documentation before the deadline [1], in order to have time to review and translate.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Angelos
>>
>>
>> [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE#gid=0
>> [2] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.5/
>> [3] http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/latest/
>> [4] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/CHANGES.txt
>> [5] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10
>> [6] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc#gid=13
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Angelos Tzotsos
>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>> National Technical University of Athens
>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos