Hi everyone,
I would like to announce that before feature freeze of OSGeoLive 6.0 (10
July) we are planning to release one final alpha version of the
distribution in the next couple of days.
Until now the major issue has been using OpenJDK7 as the default Java
VM. So basically now is a good time for the projects affected by this
change to step in and update their installation scripts or/and their
packages.
Based on my latest tests on alpha3 we have the following results:
What was fixed from alpha2:
- 52nWPS and SOS.
- OTB
- Kosmo
- Mapnik is installed now but has demo issues
- OpenCPN
- pgRouting
- Spatialite
- Zygrib (still has some issues)
- liblas
New issues from alpha2:
- GeoServer not working (JAVA_HOME not configured, openjdk7 issue)
- GeoNetwork not working (same as GeoServer)
- Maptiler was not installed
Old issues still here:
- 52nWSS not working
- gpsdrive failed to install
- Mapfish failed to install
- Gosmore freezes
- ossim failed to install
- rasdaman failed to install
- tinyows failed to install
- zoo-project (broken demo)
Still including custom Sun-Java JRE:
- uDig
- Kosmo
Projects not listed above pass all tests and are fine at the moment...
Please let us know what is the status of the project you are involved
in, based on the above issue report.
As always I will issue a 24h notice before starting the new build for
everyone to commit their last minute changes.
Best regards,
Angelos
On 04/30/2012 02:27 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
We are starting to build the 6.0 OSGeo-Live <http://live.osgeo.org/>
DVD which will be released in September 2012, ready for FOSS4G 2012 as
well as many other spatial conferences. This upcoming version will be
built upon the stable Xubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release.
Documentation will be translated into eight languages, now also
including Chinese and Catalan.
Any new applications?
We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to
OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add extra translations, or
anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.
Key Priorities for next release
Package Updates
Migrate to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Update and test latest stable
software releases
Migrating to OpenJDK
Due to Oracles changed license conditions for Sun-Java, Ubuntu users
are now strongly encouraging to move to OpenJDK instead of Sun Java,
due to both improvements in OpenJDK, and difficult licencing
conditions with Sun Java. As such, we will be endevouring to move
all java based applications to OpenJDK (instead of Sun Java).
Disk Space
We have reached our DVD size limits, and need to be creative about
saving space and disciplined in not losing space to duplication. We
hope to ship a single Java and single Tomcat version this time, in
addition to further consolidation around shared sample datasets.
Testing
With Quality being a key focus area for us, we need lots of help
with testing.
Key Milestones
10 Jul 2012 Feature Freeze 07 Aug 2012 User Acceptance Test (all
Apps installed and working) 28 Aug 2012 Final ISO sent to printers
... full schedule
<http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB>
About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-live is an XUbuntu <http://xubuntu.org/> based distribution of
Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual
Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open
source geospatial software without installing anything.
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