[Wps-discuss] Proposal to skip 2015 WPS benchmark

Thu Apr 23 22:13:48 PDT 2015

I would be happy to back Gerald up, I plan to go to foss4g.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <venka.osgeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2015/04/23 21:00, Benjamin Proß wrote:
>
>> Dear Gérald,
>>
>> Thanks for your comment. You have a point, it was probably not the best
>> point in time to propose to cancel this years benchmark. But I don't
>> think it is too late for anything. I will gladly submit an abstract to
>> this years FOSS4G about the ongoing benchmarking efforts. We could at
>> least present some intermediate results. But I'd have to ask one of you
>> guys to present. Any volunteers?
>>
>
> Several interesting applications using WPS-1.0 standard have come out in
> since FOSS4G-2014. Also WOP-2.0.0 Interface Standard [1] has become
> available in 2015 but very little discussion on this forum regarding
> this.
>
> I would propose in going ahead with the WPS shoot-out with teams that
> plan to be present at FOSS4G-2015. In the absence of the appointed
> Sheriff, Ex-Sheriff, Gerald could take up task of organizing and presenting
> the results not only to keep the momentum going but
> attracting new developers from Asia.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> ,
> [1] http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/14-065/14-065.html
>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>> Am 23.04.2015 um 13:13 schrieb Fenoy Gerald:
>>
>>> Dear Benjamin,
>>> I have to admit my disappointment that the WPS Shootout won’t happen
>>> this year and that you won’t come to Seoul (if I got your point it is
>>> mainly because it not directly right around the corner, which sounds
>>> quite limitative to me).
>>>
>>> As an experienced team in organizing the benchmark, we make this
>>> Shootout effort since 2011, I have to admit my surprise of sharing
>>> this kind of informations two days before the FOSS4G submissions
>>> deadline. This does not give much time to organize something similar
>>> by someone else. I think we should have known this information sooner
>>> if that was possible. But anyway, as it is too late now to organize
>>> anything else and I don’t see any other people interested in having it
>>> happening speaking loudly on this mailing list unfortunately, I guess
>>> I have to understand that it won’t happen this year.
>>>
>>> I would like to sat that it was a real pleasure for me personally to
>>> be part of this group effort in 2011, 2013 and 2014 and it was a
>>> benefit for the WPS project I work on to be part of this effort.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I really hope this won’t be the step where all our benchmark
>>> *group* efforts will stop and it will be a new starting point for us.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>  Le 22 avr. 2015 à 11:47, Benjamin Proß <b.pross at 52north.org> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Dear WPS developers,
>>>>
>>>> As you may know, I am responsible for the next WPS benchmark. The
>>>> results usually are presented at the international FOSS4G conference.
>>>> This time it takes place in Seoul. I will not be able to travel there
>>>> and so I cannot perform my sheriff duties. The FOSS4G 2016 will take
>>>> place in Bonn, which is right around the corner from where I work.
>>>> This is one reason why I would propose to skip the 2015 WPS
>>>> benchmark. The other reason is that we will have more time to set up
>>>> the benchmark/test plan.
>>>> I think there is already a good basis that hopefully will be extended
>>>> with OGC compliance tests, maybe also for WPS 2.0.
>>>> We are also planning to write a peer-reviewed paper about WPS
>>>> interoperability which could hopefully be connected to the benchmark
>>>> in some way.
>>>> Writing the tests and paper will take some time and so I hope you can
>>>> understand why I propose to skip this year.
>>>> Let me know, if you have any comments or questions. I also will give
>>>> you status updates via this list.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Benjamin
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Gérald Fenoy
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>>>
>>>
>>
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