[Live-demo] Should OSGeo-Live drop from 2 to 1 release per year?

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Here is the first nightly build:

http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-nightly-build2-amd64-cee765f.iso
or
http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/nightly/osgeo-live-nightly-build2-amd64-cee765f.iso

On 11/07/2016 11:47 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also agree with Johan and Astrid: there is much value with keeping 2 
> releases per year.
> I like the idea that Johan proposed, perhaps we can focus 10.5 to be 
> more of a documentation update and less about updating all versions of 
> the software.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> PS. I am turning on nightly builds now, to evaluate the build status. 
> Perhaps we can do 10.1 instead of 10.5 for March...
>
> On 11/07/2016 02:50 PM, Astrid Emde wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Am 2016-11-02 13:20, schrieb Johan Van de Wauw:
>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Cameron Shorter
>>> <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Extending impromptu IRC discussion today ...
>>>>
>>>> With the increased maturity and stability of OSGeo-Live we are 
>>>> considering
>>>> reducing the OSGeo-Live release cycle to once a year, releasing 
>>>> just before
>>>> the global FOSS4G. (Previously we have been releasing twice per year).
>>
>> I added FOSSGIS and FOSS4G to the schedule document.
>>
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tMRaCwabv7SiIG3moHEfMrQ&hl=en_GB
>>
>> In the last years FOSSGIS profited from the *.5 releases, as FOSSGIS 
>> takes place in spring every year. That was great.
>>
>> I discussed with a workshop organizer from FOSSGIS and we came to the 
>> result that it would be ok to use the *.0 version from OSGeo-Live for 
>> the FOSSGIS as well.
>>
>> In my opinion it was great to have a version of OSGeo-Live twice a 
>> year. From marketing aspect it was great to report about OSGeo-Live 
>> so often and hear from the project...  Reducing it to once a year is 
>> a long time in between. But if it means too much work and stress for 
>> the team it would be a reasonable decision.
>>
>> Maybe we could think about other actions in the rest of the year 
>> (f.e. documentation sprints) to get new people involved.
>>
>> Hope I can join the meeting today.
>>
>> See you Astrid
>>
>>
>>
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>



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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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