[Live-demo] OSGeo live - new candidate: Halestudio

Sat May 20 05:08:24 PDT 2017

I am also in favor of including Halestudio in OSGeo-Live.
Unfortunately the 300+ MB footprint is way above our disk capacity right 
now, we would need to have it stripped from all extra parts (JRE, demo 
data etc)

Best,
Angelos

On 05/16/2017 03:39 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> I've proposed Hale in the past
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2013-December/008557.html
>
> So +1 here if we have a suitable install and enough space.
>
> Technically speaking the current linux binaries include the jre and
> the resulting package is definitely too large. It should use the
> openjdk provided by ubuntu. We should then still check if the
> application is still not too big.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dirk,
>>
>> Looking through your responses, Halestudio looks to be a very strong
>> candidate for including on OSGeo-Live.
>>
>> Whether we have time to get it included in time for OSGeo-Live 11.0 is
>> questionable.
>>
>> For prior projects we have often taken two releases to onboard the project
>> to OSGeo-Live. Firstly we include the project in stealth mode. (It is
>> installed, but the docs are not linked into the main docs, so new users
>> don't accidentally use it. This gives us more time to do QA.
>>
>> I'll be interested to hear thoughts from other OSGeo-Live folks. I'd
>> especially like to hear from anyone who has experience with Halestudio to
>> hear their thoughts.
>>
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15/5/17 10:44 pm, Dirk Frigne wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hereby we would like to ask if hale studio is appropriate to be included
>>> on the next OSGeoLive release.
>>> Below you can find the answers to the application questions as described
>>> on the wiki page.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Please describe your application:
>>>
>>>       What is its name? hale studio
>>>       What is the home page URL?
>>> https://www.wetransform.to/products/halestudio/
>>>       Which OSI-approved Open Source License is used? GNU Lesser General
>>> Public Licence (LGPL) v3.0
>>>       What does the application do and how does it add value to the
>>> Geospatial stack of software? hale studio enables you to transform and
>>> harmonise spatial data, with a focus on highly complex data sets. Set up
>>> reporting, analysis and data publishing workflows easily by defining
>>> schema mappings. Furthermore, hale studio documents the data
>>> transformation process and its impact on data quality.
>>>       Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions of
>>> the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about how
>>> standards are used.
>>>           Read and write GML (2.1.2 to 3.3)
>>>           WFS client (1.1, 2.0, 2.0.2), including support for WFS
>>> Transactions
>>>           WMS client (1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.3.0)
>>>           Simple Features SQL
>>>           JSON (RFC 7159, ECMA-404)
>>>           GeoJSON (IETF RFC 7946)
>>>       What language is it written in? Java, Groovy
>>>       Which version of the application should be included in the next
>>> OSGeo-Live release? 3.3.0
>>>
>>> Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds a
>>> bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all other
>>> OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the following
>>> answers):
>>>
>>>       If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application into
>>> production, it would imply that these organisations have verified the
>>> stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to
>>> production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please
>>> mention some of these organisations
>>>           State of Hamburg (Germany)
>>>           State of Bavaria (Germany)
>>>           State of Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)
>>>           Institute of Forest Management of Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
>>>           Armed Forces (Germany)
>>>           SMWA Sachsen (Germany)
>>>           GDI Südhessen (96 districts and municipalities in Germany)
>>>           Prisma Solutions (Austria)
>>>           IGP (Portugal)
>>>           IRCELINE (Belgium)
>>>           HL Consulting (Belgium)
>>>           Statkart (Norway)
>>>           European Environmental Agency (Denmark)
>>>
>>> Most of these organisations sponsor continued development of the
>>> software through support contracts.
>>>
>>>       Open HUB provides metrics to help assess the health of a project.
>>> E.g.: http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html Could
>>> you please ensure that your project is registered with Open HUB, and
>>> Open HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s)
>>> for your project. What is the Open HUB URL for your project?
>>> https://www.openhub.net/p/halestudio
>>>       What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this by
>>> mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
>>>           Downloads per year: 4.000 to 5.000
>>>           Posts on the forum per year: 80 to 100
>>>       What is the size of your developer community?
>>>           At wetransform: 3 FTE
>>>           Outside wetransform: 2-3 major contributions per year, e.g.
>>> SQLite reader, Geoserver app-schema integration
>>>       Do you have a bug free, stable release?
>>>           There are stable releases for production usage available since
>>> release 2.0.1 (2010). A release history is available through GitHub:
>>> https://github.com/halestudio/hale/releases
>>>           The latest release is 3.2.0, with version 3.3.0 being released
>>> this week (19.05.2017)
>>>       Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
>>> through.
>>>           hale studio's alignment creation and transformation capabilities
>>> have been thoroughly tested in a multitude of data transformation
>>> projects both by its developers as well as its open source user community.
>>>           Furthermore, continuous integration tests are performed by our
>>> build infrastructure at https://builds.wetransform.to on every commit to
>>> the master branch. The integration test suite is continuously extended
>>> with every new feature or problem report. We publish detailed test
>>> reports using Allure.
>>>           Every release candidate of hale studio undergoes additional
>>> manual/explorative testing.
>>>       How long has the project has had mature code?
>>>           Version 1.0 of hale studio was released in December 2009. Since
>>> the release of version 2.0.1 in 2010, the code base can be regarded
>>> mature.
>>>       OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
>>> than libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
>>> command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an
>>> exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project
>>> Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't have a user interface.)
>>>           hale studio has a graphical user interface to create
>>> transformation projects and perform data transformations.
>>>       With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
>>> packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project email
>>> list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
>>> take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
>>> communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
>>> scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
>>> OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and
>>> Quickstart documentation works as expected on release candidate releases
>>> of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person?
>>>           Simon Templer (st at wetransform.to)
>>>           Florian Esser (fe at wetransform.to) as backup
>>>       OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
>>>           1. Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
>>>           2. Install .deb files from a PPA
>>>           3. Write a custom install script
>>>
>>> Can you please discuss how your application will be installed? A custom
>>> installation script will be used to extract the application archive at
>>> the appropriate location and create an application launcher.
>>>
>>>       OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run
>>> in 512 Meg of RAM?
>>>           Yes, though we recommend 1 GB or more. Very large/complex
>>> transformation projects will benefit from 2GB+.
>>>       How much disk space will be required to install the application and
>>> a suitable example application?
>>>           ~380 MiB including example data sets and Java runtime
>>>       We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of a
>>> common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example
>>> datasets already installed:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
>>> another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
>>> appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be
>>> included in the standard release.
>>>           In the standard release, some demo datasets are included. These
>>> may be removed for the installation on the OSGeo Live DVD. The default
>>> ‘Natural Earth’ dataset could be used to illustrate the potential of the
>>> application as an ETL tool with respect to INSPIRE and complex schemas.
>>> However, this would be better illustrated by providing a more
>>> specialized INSPIRE dataset.
>>>       Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
>>> under a CC By and a Quickstart available under a CC By-SA license. (You
>>> may release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?
>>>           Yes. Both the Project Overview and Quickstart will be created
>>> based on the existing project documentation, help and demos.
>>>       In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for
>>> some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future
>>> releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include
>>> Windows and/or Mac installers?
>>>           Both Windows and Mac installers exist for the project.
>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> M +61 419 142 254
>>
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