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

[Javier Rodrigo Blanco]

Hi, we are already working on i3geo docs, so draft docs will be ready by 14/01/2013.

El 07-01-2013, a las 23:43, Angelos Tzotsos escribió:

> 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
> Remote Sensing Laboratory
> National Technical University of Athens
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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