Happy Birthday GDAL!
GDAL is an important project for me personally. Back in 2006, a completely accidental chat with Frank Warmerdam on IRC led me to change my job - in January 2007 I became GDAL paid maintainer - and sequence of events that followed led to a significant change of my professional career. Thanks Frank and all the members of the GDAL Team and Community! Best regards, Mateusz On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 03:51, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I nearly missed it [1] (actually I'm already on the 18th here, but let's > consider > Canadian time so still on the 17th), but exactly 20 years go on Oct 17th 1998, > Frank Warmerdam committed for the first time in the CSV repository. > > ''' > commit 149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552 > Author: Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Oct 17 19:24:36 1998 +0000 > > Initial implementation. > > > git-svn-id: https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk@2 > f0d54148-0727-0410-94bb-9a71ac55c965 > ''' > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552 > > 169 lines for a first version of the virtual I/O layer... > > Since then, > * 39075 commits have been added on top of it, > * 159 raster drivers > * 96 vector drivers [2] > * by 161 committers (actually there are more contributors, here just counting > the ones who have directly authored a CVS, SVN or git commit), > * adding 7110 files in the repository, for a grand total of > * 2.192 millions lines in 3745 files with extensions c, cpp, h, hh, hpp, py, > html, java, cs, i, pl, vc, sh, bat, dox, ac, GNUmakefile (80 MB) (all the > text files) > so an average of 300 lines per day added > * 64 releases > * 6287 tickets closed > * 49097 messages posted on gdal-dev > * more than 100 software proudly mentionning using it > > Happy birthday and long life to GDAL and its commmnity of contributors, either > by code, documentation, testing, packaging, reports, ... ! > > Even > > [1] thanks to Robert Coup for reminding me a few days ago about the > approaching date ! > [2] you'll note that 155 + 96 = 255, but I don't think there's a > Byte limitation for the number of drivers ... > > -- > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > http://www.spatialys.com > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
