[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live CD

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon May 22 17:11:07 PDT 2017


Hi Robert,

 From what I understand, a feature complete GUI SLD editor is something 
that would be valuable for the Open Source community. If SLD Editor 
provides such functionality, it would be a worthy addition.

With regards to including SLDEditor on OSGeoLive, from looking at your 
application below, it looks like SLDEditor hasn't yet reached the level 
of maturity we look for before including the project.

I'd be looking for indications that SLDEditor has been adopted more 
widely, which provides validation that the community think this project 
is good. In particular, it would be very valuable to see other 
developers being attracted to the community. A very powerful form of 
validation would be if your code were included into another project, 
such as GeoServer.

What are your thoughts on integrating with existing mature projects?

Warm regards, Cameron


On 22/5/17 10:47 pm, Robert Ward wrote:
>
> Looking at the timescales I appreciate I am late responding and it 
> will invalidate the application, however any feedback would be great.
>
> Questionnaire answers attached.
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> *
> Robert Ward*
>
> Technical Architect – Enterprise Solutions & Defence
>
> *SCISYS UK Limited*
>
> T: +44 (0)1249 466575
>
> E: robert.ward at scisys.co.uk | www.scisys.co.uk
>
> SCISYS UK Limited. Registered in England and Wales No. 4373530.
> Registered Office: Methuen Park, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 0GB, UK.
> Before printing, please think about the environment.
>
> SLDEditor OSGeo-Live.txt
>
>
> Please describe your application.
> What is its name?
>
> SLDEditor
>
> What is the home page URL?
> https://github.com/robward-scisys/sldeditor
>
> Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
> GPL-3.0
>
> What does the application do and how does it add value to the GeoSpatial stack of software?
>
> The aim of the project is to develop an application enabling the generation of SLD files, where a user has complete control over all aspects of the OGC SLD standard using a graphical interface.
>
> 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.
> The application reads and writes files conforming to the OGC Styled Layer Descriptor standard (version 1.1) as supported by the GeoTools library.
>
> What language is it written in?
> Java 1.8
>
> Which version of the application should be included in the next OSGeo-Live release?
> Version 0.7.5
>
> 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?
> The application has been used within SciSys and the generated data has appeared in production systems.
> I am not aware of how the application has been used and in which organisations.
>
> Open HUB provides metrics to help assess the health of a project. Eg: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/sldeditor
>
> What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
> 1028 Downloads of the released applications @ 21/05/2017
>
> What is the size of your developer community?
> 1
>
> Do you have a bug free, stable release?
>
> There are currently 1093 unit tests providing 75% code coverage.  There are also a series of integration tests that check:
> * whether the application is displaying the expected values when an SLD file is read
> * if a value is updated in the GUI it appears in the generated SLD file correctly
>
> How long has the project has had mature code.
> About a year.
>
> 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.)
> We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which are presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then please mention it.
> The project was initially presented at FOSS4G UK, at Southampton in 2016.  OSGeo incubation status has been sought.
>
> 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.
>
> Robert Ward,robert.ward at scisys.co.uk
>
> OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
> Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
> Install .deb files from a PPA
> Write a custom install script
> Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
>
> A Ubuntu PPA has been created to install the package from a .deb file.
>
> OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run in 512 Meg of RAM?
> Yes
>
> How much disk space will be required to install the application and a suitable example application?
> 75MB
>
> 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.
>
> I think the GeoServer SLD Cookbook datasets should be added to the OSGeo-Live release.  They are not part of the SLD Editor release however they are used in the unit and integration testing.
>
> 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?
> I can
>
> 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?
> Mac installer exists.
> Windows install could be created if required.
>
>
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Cameron Shorter
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