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

[Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski]

Can we start collecting money for certifying databases for
PostGIS-compatibility instead?
(like, "you indeed pass our regression suite").

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 8:52 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> 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.
> P.
>
> > 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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