Blessed to have such a strong open source community! Happy birthday GDAL! On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 8:41 AM Kralidis, Tom (EC) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congratulations to all of the GDAL community for this milestone! > > ..Tom > > From: gdal-dev <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank > Warmerdam > Sent: October 18, 2018 10:55 > To: Even Rouault <[email protected]> > Cc: gdal dev <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Twenty years of GDAL ! > > Even, > > Wow, 20 years! Thanks for pointing out this milestone. > > It is a huge pleasure to know that: > - it has been a core technology supporting so many other software > packages and projects > - it has been a project that lots of people have felt comfortable > contributing to > > GDAL is the core of our data processing pipeline at Planet where we have a > number of esoteric internal GDAL drivers, so I continue to use it every > day. > > Special thanks to Even who's outsize contribution has kept the project > healthy and progressing as I focused on other activities. > > Best regards, > Frank > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:51 PM Even Rouault <mailto: > [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 <mailto:[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 > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, mailto: > [email protected] > light and sound - activate the windows | > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
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