Folks, Jurgen, Paolo, Tamas and I had a small private discussion on issues with OSGeo4W and things that might be done. I'd like to return this discussion now to the main list for the community at large.
I'll summarize the items I'm keen on: 1) I think it is time to establish an OSGeo4W Project Steering Committee as a means to ensure that decisions can actually get made with regard to OSGeo4W. I'd be willing to draft some preliminary documents in this regard and I'd like to suggest at least Jürgen Fischer, Tamas Szekeres, Matt Wilkie and myself as initial members. Also perhaps Hirofumi Hayashi or one of the other folks who worked on the Japanese support and related improvements? 2) I'd like to see us move a central development server on which many of the core packages (mostly libraries) can be rebuilt by any of the core developers to make it easier to do upgrades, and to take care of important packages. Alex Mandel has provided a windows VM at UCDavis that I hope might be suitable for this purpose. 3) I'd like to see us think about 64 windows support. It might mean supporting 32bit and 64bit or even leaping as far as just shipping 64 bit binaries. 4) I'd like to see us put a little more process into place for testing and perhaps actually assemble periodic releases in a working area without subjecting the world to breakage when someone (often me) breaks a low level package. I'd appreciate feedback from the community on the above, and suggestions of other issues of importance. Most importance in some ways is the PSC idea as settling that makes other items easier to work out with some conclusiveness. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [email protected] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer
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