[postgis-devel] Fwd: OGC Compliance Renewal Notification - 60 Day Expiration Notice

[Paul Ramsey]

We haven’t been a certified implementation since Refractions paid for the process back in 1.2 era. The OGC certification process also requires a separate certification for EVERY RELEASED VERSION, so you can see how it rapidly became a Low Priority.
It sure would be nice if that “OGC MOU with OSGeo” got us something like, say, no-pay certification of OSGeo projects, under the OSGeo organization header (that’s the other quirk, the listing for the certification ends up being under the sponsoring organization, so it was “Refractions Research PostGIS 1.2” that was certified.
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> On Nov 11, 2019, at 7:42 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
> strk,
> 
> The note I saw from Angelos talked about reference implementations.  PostGIS has never been a reference implementation to my knowledge.
> 
> As far as caring -- I think we wanted to follow the spec and may have been certified in OGC in 1.2 days, but we have an issue of two specs we got to worry about 
> 
> The ISO/SQL MM spec (which is more respected as far as databases go but costs money to even read the spec) , and the OGC spec - I'd be surprised if any database is completely certified in these.
> 
> We probably care less now than we did back then -- because back then we were small and largely ignored, now we are the most widely used spatial database so many spatial databases look to us for direction.
> I'd be more concerned about growing our competitors though - as you don't want to be the only fish in the small spatial pond.
> 
> So perhaps we should care just a little if for no other reason than to have more competition.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 5:30 AM
> To: postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org; Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> Subject: [postgis-devel] Fwd: OGC Compliance Renewal Notification - 60 Day Expiration Notice
> 
> Hi old generation devs,
> 
> Angelos forwarded a reminder mail from OGC about expiring compatibility certifications.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 08:46:35PM +0200, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> This is a reminder from OGC for all our projects that want to pass 
>> certification for the next year.
>> Please contact me so I can add your tests to the OSGeo implementation list.
> 
> The list of certified projects did not include PostGIS at all, when did we stop caring ? Should we start again ?
> Paul (or Angelos) do you know what does that imply ?
> 
> --strk;
> 
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