Yes, Alex has provided good answers to these questions.
At the moment, we don't have formal guidelines for what is, or is not on
OSGeoLive, but I expect that we will need to address that soon, as
getting onto OSGeoLive is going to become very desirable for projects
due to the marketing reach of OSGeoLive, and we only have limited space.
So we are going to have to put objective criteria in place to specify
what is, or is not, included.
I'd say the first criteria is that the application is stable, and is
used in production, ideally in a number of places.
Alex Mandel wrote:
Here's the simple explanation:
1. You need to build a shell script (.sh) to install your application
either from a deb package(ubuntu lucid) or from a web download.
For examples see:
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin
2. You need to write some documentation for the project
For examples see(this version may require slightly more than what's in
these):
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/descriptions
More Details:
Because we intend to release a new version approx every 6 months(every
new version of ubuntu) we are looking for projects that intend to
continue to upgrade and maintain their installation scripts that often.
We didn't highlight it much this time, but we have tested putting
OSGeoLive on USB and it works. In future versions we will highlight this
more.
OSGeoLive is a Virtual Machine, DVD or USB stick all from the same
automated build process which is why your application install must be a
script. Previous names have included FOSS4G DVD, LiveDVD, etc.
Our previous discussion over if we would include the application was
merely about what we prefer, and criteria by which we would rank
applications if we need to eliminate some for space reasons.
While we do include some new/beta applications our preference is for
stable applications as part of our target audience is the general GIS
community who have never tried Open Source before.
Keep in mind in order to be considered for this upcoming version which
will be given out at the conference we need at least a draft script in
our svn before the Feature Freeze(in 2 weeks). You will still have 1
month after that to bug fix and finish documentation.
Thanks,
Alex
On 06/14/2010 07:51 AM, Bob Basques wrote:
All,
Relaed to this thread. I'm thinking about adding GeoMoose as well. But
I'm having a hard time gleening how much work it will be over the long
haul. I don't want it to end up half done for example.
Also, was wondering about things like USB bootable versions of things.
I could include this in the distro for GeoMoose as well, but is that
sort of capability played up at all, should it be a separate DVD or
Chapter, also, I'm currently working on a Mobile version that likely
won't be done in time for inclusion in anything (yet) but I'll include
it here as another possible version . . .
Thoughts?
bobb
johann Sorel <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
Hi Johan,
At the moment, we don't have formal guidelines for what is and is not
included in the LiveDVD.
But our general criteria for adding projects has been that the
projects
are stable, fill a niche and are being used,
So you are basicly saying that starting project that doesn't have a
community yet has no chance to be added to the dvd ?
Maybe there is a difference between the FOSS4G DVD and what you call the
liveDVD.
I was referring to your blog post :
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/06/building-osgeo-live-dvd-for-foss4g-2010.html
and have a person who is
prepared to do the hard work of bundling the software, writing the
documentation, and continuing to maintain the project on the liveDVD.
I was thinking it was a special version regrouping applications
available at the foss ?
or am I wrong ? to I need to maintain it afterward ???
There are no restrictions on creating installer scripts for the
LiveDVD,
which means that if the project is not included in the main release,
you
can still create your own version of the DVD.
There is point making my own DVD, the objective is to show the project
exist, not for me
but for the community.
The project I would like to include is Puzzle-GIS :
http://puzzle-gis.codehaus.org
It' a Java Desktop GIS build on Netbeans Platform and GeotoolKit.org.
the version I will propose is v0.7 which is not available for download
yet.
it will take ~80Mb and does not need install script.
johann sorel
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