GeoTools / GeoServer Meeting 2015-11-03
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Attending
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Ben Caradoc-Davies
Ian Turton
Andrea Aime
Jody Garnett
Torben Barsballe
Kevin Smith
Jukka Rahkonen
Jeff Brower
Brad Hards

Agenda
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- CITE tests and build infrastructure
- Java 8
- Code sprints
- ImageProcessing (OpenCV, ImageJ, GeoAI)

Actions
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- Andrea whitelist winbuild instead of subscribing
- Jody: check CITE test problem with boundless IT
- Ben: call for volunteers to migrate master to Java 8 [DONE]
- Jody: for Victoria code sprint, reach out to BC government, vivid 
solutions, etc...
- Ben: make a wiki page for the Victoria code sprint [DONE]
- Andrea : fill wiki page for code sprint

Actions from last meeting
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- Victoria Office: move master to reference artifactory directly

CITE tests and build infrastructure
-----------------------------------

See email! Apparently we all missed it.

Winbuild: failing, has not been notifying the list since August.

What do we need? 2.8.x and master are not getting tested!

- check ares to see if port ... trying to connect a service?
- startup starts jetty, then polls port until it gets a response, gets a 
404 and dies
http://ares.boundlessgeo.com/jenkins/view/testing-cite/job/2.8-cite-wfs-1.0/33/consoleFull

<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
   <title>Error 404 NOT_FOUND</title>
</head>

- when did this start? October 21st ...
- funny - the 2.7.x branch actively starts and works?
- Check if each branch uses a different a port?
   2.7.x polling port 11010
   2.8.x polling port 11010
- Check version of Java used?
- action: check with boundless IT

Java 8
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Waiting for CITE tests working - so this activity is blocked.

Agreed to move JDK and source+target for master.

Need a champion for this activity, recommend changing CITE, then online 
tests, then master. And organize response.

Action: call for volunteers.

Travis status:
- https://travis-ci.org/geotools/geotools (good)
- https://travis-ci.org/geoserver/geoserver (dunno)

Code Sprints
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There are two code sprints on the radar:
* Feb code sprint in Victoria :)
* France code sprint a week in Feb:
   http://doodle.com/poll/ii5cu9et58vghkts

Approach:
1. make a wiki page (action: jody and ben)
    http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Victoria_Code_Sprint_2016
2. put the topic on the next board meeting (action: andrea)
    http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-11-12

Ideas for wiki page:
- Present as a maintenace activity, rather than a community build activity.

Sponsors ideas:
- OSGeo
- Credit GeoSolutions and Boundless for staff time
- Local: BC Government? vivid solutions, etc...

Concerns:
- concerned about cost (see sponsorship)
- time is close to code freeze? Could we do this mid January
- may be a bit of scramble to get sponorship in order
- action: Put January as primary date, mid Feb as fallback plan.

OpenCV Discussion
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Jeff Bower has a proposal sent out, Andrea has had a quick glance at the 
proposal.

Discussion:
- possible replacement for native JAI replacment? Ie implement JAI 
Operators we care about in terms of OpenCV (Scale, Translate, General 
Affine, Warp, Crop, Lookup) and then give the a higher priority so they 
are used if OpenCV plugin they are used.
- discussion focused on WMS optimization above, Jeff's customers may be 
using WPS for "image analyitics" - so they may be using WPS?!
- standard operations may be worse because of latency in calling JAI 
operations via an accelerator.
- concern about moving data on and off GPU? OpenCV can be configured to 
stay on CPU
- note: GIS procesing is not normal image processing - requires region 
of interest (similar to a mask), and 'no data' (some values should not 
be processed).
- OpenCV has some support for the above :)

ImageProcessing
---------------
To review - Java Advanced Imaging is "end of life" and we are looking at 
stratagies to replace.

JAI
- key feature is the tile based processing engine, you set up your 
processing chain (kind of like functional programming) and the engine 
will bring in raster data a chunk at a time allowing processing of files 
larger than memory.
- no_data and region of interest support has been added as additional 
operations via JAI-EXT for the processing engine.

Alternatives:

1. OpenCV (see above)
- http://opencv.org/
- BSD license, C/C++ codebase with bindings for Java
- Use OpenCL to share work with CPU/GPU
- Does it have the ability to work data larger then memory? Need to 
check ...

2. ImageJ
- had a look, seems to be comparable to JAI (ie it is an image 
processing engine)
- Eclipse Science Working Group is starting in on this one (and may have 
room for collaboration)
- Found the engine here: http://imagej.net/ImgLib2
- Could not see any support for working with raster data larger than 
memory. Has region of interest (ROI) support, not sure about no_data.
- At least one nD dimensional data format.
- has high level operators (feaure extractions etc...)

3. JAI Replacement
- Need a project name for JAI replacement, then start fund raising
- Interest from Boundless, GeoSolutions, LocationTech, H2Gis too
- would like work though OSGeo and LocationTech
- mostly focused on the technical requirements
- name? JAI-NG, GTAI, GeoAI, JSCIP (Java Scalable Image Processing) 
JAI-15, OpenJImaging, OpenJI? OpenJAI? JIOpen? GeoNee
- No use of JAI interfaces ... because Oracle
- "Java" is a trademark
- This is a *lot* of work, both in the project, and in migrating 
GeoTools and GeoServer.
- Q: How well does GeoTools protect downstream projects? Pretty good 
(except for direct rendering path and some WPS). Remaining code is 
hidden behind "image worker".
- Note: RenderedImage is a Java class, not PlanarImage which is the JAI 
subclass.

4. GeoTrellis
- requires data to be broken into tiles before use, making use of sparc 
to handle concurrent processing.
- Not sure about no_data and ROI support.


-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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