[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 8.5 status: alpha3

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 01/02/2015 12:10 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Happy New Year!
>
> We are getting closer to beta stage and we have prepared a new alpha for
> testers.
> The critical issue list [1] is much smaller than alpha2, but we have still
> a couple of things to fix.
> The changelog can be found here [2]
> Download links: [3] [4]
>
> Best wishes for 2015,
> Angelos
>
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10
> [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/CHANGES.txt#L4
> [2]
> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/8.5/osgeo-live-mini-8.5alpha3-i386.iso
> [3]
> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/8.5alpha3/osgeo-live-mini-8.5alpha3-i386.iso
>

After some testing on 8.5alpha3 iso I confirmed the following issues:

Critical issues:
1. MapBender fails to install (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1436)
2. OpenJUMP fails to install (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1452)
3. ncWMS fails to install (fixed post-alpha3 
http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-nightly-build12142-i386.iso)

Major issues:
1. Cesium needs documentation (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1449)
2. gpsdrive is missing OSM data (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1445)
3. GRASS needs new sample dataset and documentation update for version 7 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1433)
4. GeoNode sample datasets don't load during build 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1442)
5. IPython documentation needed (have recently been committed 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1435)
6. Build spgrass6 against new GRASS7 dev 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1444)
7. uDig fails to start on first launch 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1394)

Best,
Angelos

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