[OSGeoLive] Proposing application: actinia

Wed Jul 10 01:44:19 PDT 2019

Thank you Marcus for your e-mail.
Actinia seems to be a great fit to the OSGeoLive disk.
Here is my +1 to include Actinia.
I have already made some comments on what needs to be changed in the
installer and I am willing to help with the packaging tasks.

Best regards,
Angelos

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:08 AM Markus Neteler <neteler at mundialis.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we hereby propose "actinia" for inclusion in OSGeo-live:
>
>
> *Describe of the application:*
>
> What is its name?
>
> *actinia *
> *What is the home page URL?*
>
>    - https://actinia.mundialis.de/
>    - https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/
>
> *Which **OSI approved Open Source Licence
> <http://opensource.org/licenses>** is used?*
>
>    - GPL-3
>
> *What does the application do and how does it add value to the GeoSpatial
> stack of software?*
>
>    - actinia is an open source REST API for scalable, distributed, high
>    performance processing of geographical data that uses mainly GRASS GIS for
>    computational tasks. Besides that, also further OSGeo related software and
>    other open source analysis tools can be used.
>
> *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.*
>
>    - actinia core offers the possibility to extend it with plugins. The
>    actinia-gdi plugin (https://github.com/mundialis/actinia-gdi/) helps
>    integrating actinia-core in an existing GDI, e.g. to communicate with
>    GeoNetwork.
>
> *What language is it written in?*
>
>    - Python-3
>
> *Which version of the application should be included in the next
> OSGeo-Live release?*
>
>    - The current "latest".
>
>
> * 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?*
>
>    - At time a major German telekommunication company is using actinia in
>    a cloud based massive data processing roll-out. At FOSS4G 2019 in Bucharest
>    some related presentations will be given.
>    - Besides that, actinia is the backend of the openEO GRASS GIS driver (
>    https://openeo.org/, a H2020 EU project |
>    https://github.com/Open-EO/openeo-grassgis-driver).
>
> *What is the Open HUB URL for your project?*
>
>    - https://www.openhub.net/p/actinia_core/
>
> *What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this by
> mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?*
>
>    - The actinia community is very young and yet hard to measure. Some
>    stats are available from
>    https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/graphs/traffic
>
> *What is the size of your developer community?*
>
>    - Three core devs + some infrequent contributors.
>
> *Do you have a bug free, stable release?*
>
>    - There is no bugfree software :-)
>    Yes, a stable release is available from
>    https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tags
>
> *Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone through.*
>
>    - A notable test set is included, see
>    https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tree/master/tests .
>    - The deployment of actinia has been tested with Openstack as well as
>    CI/CD pipelines in Openshift. Furthermore several deployments are running
>    with docker-swarm. Dockerfiles for development and for production are
>    available from
>    https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/tree/master/docker
>    - Importantly, we use CI/CD pipelines for testing during deployment.
>
> *How long has the project has had mature code.*
>
>    - The core of actinia has been used in production since end of 2016
>    (back then named GRaaS - GRASS GIS as a Service) as a backend in a
>    Sentinel-2 metadata processor operated for ESA (
>    https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/-/filter-sentinel-2a-scenes-with-the-new-release-of-eo-me
>    ).
>
> *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.)*
>
>    - Since actinia offers a REST API, there is no interactive user
>    interface per se. However, a few options are there (see also the actinia
>    docs):
>       - use curl (yes, cmd line is also a nice user interface,
>       https://actinia.mundialis.de/tutorial/)
>       - Postman extension for Chrome
>       - actinia command execution (ace,
>       https://github.com/mundialis/actinia_core/blob/master/scripts/)
>       - more to come
>
> * We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which are
> presented at **FOSS4G <http://foss4g.org>** conferences. If your project
> is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at
> FOSS4G, then please mention it.*
>
>    - actinia is an OSGeo community project since 2019:
>    https://www.osgeo.org/projects/actinia/
>
> *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.*
>
>    - Markus Neteler
>
> *Can you please discuss how your application will be installed:*
>
>    - We have developed an installer script: The pull request of installer
>    script is at
>    https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/266
>
> * OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run in
> 512 Meg of RAM?*
>
>    - No problem.
>
> * How much disk space will be required to install the application and a
> suitable example application?*
>
>    - The Python scripts are consuming 17MB. The backend GRASS GIS + GDAL
>    + dependencies are already present on OSGeo-live.
>
> *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
> <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.*
>
>    - The North Carolina dataset is fine.
>
> * Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available under
> a **CC By <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>** and a
> Quickstart available under a **CC By-SA
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>** license. (You may
> release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?*
>
>    - Sure: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/455
>
> *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?*
>
>    - No thanks, not needed here.
>
> best regards,
>
> Markus
>
> (on behalf of the actinia team)
>
> --
> Markus Neteler
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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