Hi Martin, Thank you for taking time to respond in detail. Please see comments inline: On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 03/04/13 23:30, Suresh Marru a écrit : >> Hello Martin, It is really pleasing to hear such a commitment from some one >> deeply engaged in OGC. While I agree with you on the influence on a younger >> project and also the impact an open community process like Apache can have. >> I personally respect OGC as a governing organization and as a standards >> defining body. But we all could not deny the fact that community rallied >> behind OGC and produced some good software. I am curious to learn how will >> community respond to Apache SIS vs any software endorsed by OGC? Do you see >> SIS positioning itself as a reference implementation for the OGC standard? > > I think that SIS will probably be a reference implementation of GeoAPI [1]. > But I think that being a reference implementation of other standards implies > a strong participation in the standard working group, which may be done on a > case-by-case basis depending on volunteer energy. That makes sense. > However maybe your question was rather if SIS would be officially OGC > compliant? This is a different question. Being OGC compliant means passing > the CITE tests [2]. Actually, executing the CITE tests will be part of SIS > Maven build after we ported the relevant part (I mean, CITE tests can be > executed every time the project is built). I am more wondering on the OGC Compliance from an interoperability stand point and not so much on official stamp. CITE tests as part of maven builds sounds very interesting. > Companies can also paid OGC for testing their software and get the official > "OGC compliant" logo. This is something that Geomatys plans to do, but it > would be on top of SIS rather than directly in the SIS project. With the > above-mentioned CITE tests executed at build time, I think that anyone would > be able to do that on their side. > > Note that CITE tests are essentially about Web Services. An other significant > source of tests is GIGS [3]. Those tests are being implemented in GeoAPI, and > SIS will also execute them. > > On the question about how community will respond to Apache SIS, I think that > OGC standards are so large that no single software in the world implement all > of them. Different softwares may focus on different needs. We can probably > not please to every communities. My hope is rather to have SIS well-suited to > some communities (scientists, but also non-scientists wanting to explore data > in more dimensions than the usual x,y). I agree with this. Looking forward to see SIS gets widely adopted. Thanks again for taking time to elaborate in detail, I kind of got of a feel for it. Suresh > Martin > > > [1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/geoapi > [2] http://cite.opengeospatial.org/teamengine/ > [3] http://www.epsg.org/gigs.html >
