[Ubuntu] Google Summer of Code for OSGeo-Live/UbuntuGIS/DebianGIS?

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:

>> I'd also be looking at the future,
>> working on the latest git/svn versions of packages rather than trying
>> to build the released versions, so changes are picked up in the new
>> versions rather than seperately in eg debian gis.
>
> I admit I'm to uneducated in GIS software and also the scope of osgeo to
> have a valuable opinion on this.  When wearing my Debian maintainers hut
> I'd prefer released versions over code drained from VCS but it might be
> useful for you.  I just want to say that even if you are packaging "in
> advance" of Debian you could use the Debian GIS packaging repository as
> well when using proper version names and branches.  I think this should
> be discussed with Debian GIS team and yould be for profit of both sides.
>
Many GIS applications release often. I just want to avoid that the
debian version actually becomes a fork because of the large number of
changes that would be needed. Rather than trying to package eg 1.1
with 100 patches on debian I think it often makes more sense to make
sure version 1.2 will be able to be packaged using just a few patches.
I'm much more convinced that that will be maintained after the summer
of code.
Anyway, the best strategy should be derived after finding out what the
issues are!

Johan