Thanks for the report. Unfortunately I forgot to attend... To anyone going to FOSS4G as well: there will be a bird-of feather session for the osgeo live dvd. Since they are basically doing the same (packaging/writing install scripts for debian/ubuntu) it would be nice if you could drop by (no time fixed yet though).
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather Johan On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > as you know yesterday we had an IRC meeting[1] and I want to present > first results from the meeting. > > 1. Moved debian-gis from SVN to Git > ----------------------------------- > > As you hopefully know the debian-gis source package also contain the > tasks which are responsible for the web sentinel[2]. In the meeting it > was decided to move it from SVN to Git. So if you > > debcheckout --user=<you> debian-gis > > you get only a README.status file pointing to the new location[3]. > Note to Hamish: You see that I did not followed your initial wish > to move it to pkg-grass area. You had the reasoning: > > Sep 16 22:38:26 <Hamish_B> better to put debiangis things in debiangis > repo IMO, then have blends be the servant not the master > > because there is no such thing like a master-servant relation. > Currently most Blends are inside blends/project and as long as > there is no more stringent reason to change this it has some > advantages to stick here. I ensured that the interested members > of the IRC meeting yesterday are granted commit-permissions by > adding > > Francesco Lovergine (frankie) > Hamish Bowman (hamish-guest) > Bas Couwenberg (sebastic-guest) > > to the Blends team. If this should show any drawback we can > move the Git repository easily. > > > 2. Wrote script to easily trigger websentinel creation > ------------------------------------------------------ > > I mentioned yesterday that it is documented how to receate the web > sentinel after changing the tasks[4]. To smoothen your learning curve > I added a small script[5] which you can call like > > blends_websentinel_update debian-gis > > to trigger the creation of the web pages[6]. I hope you consider this > useful. Please test, whether it really works for you. Please note that > the script also fetches a logfile which contains useful information > about packages that are not found (may be spelling errors, different > name of binary and source package - you always need to specify source > packages). > > > 3. OSGEO categories > ------------------- > > Hamish pointed me to a set of OSGEO categories[7]. I promised to > inject these into the Blends framework and did the first one while > the IRC meeting was running. Because this is high on my todo list > I think I manage this before my vacation. > > > 4. Update osm2pgsql > ------------------- > > "apmon" (whoever this nick might belong to) asked about an upgrade of > osm2pgsql. I had a look into this and might at least push the package a > bit. No promise that I'll finish it before my VAC (starting at 20.9.). > > > 5. Sponsering of osgearth > ------------------------- > > Bas Couwenberg has added osgearth to my SoB[8] page. I confirm that > osgearth is on the Blends pages[9] so the SoB criterion is matched. Bas > I try to do my best but VAC is approaching (see above). > > > 6. Wiki links to new thermometer > -------------------------------- > > There was agreement to link to the new Blends based thermometer[10] on > DebianGis Wiki[11] and I also replaced this link at [12] and [13]. It > might make sense to set a redirect on the old thermometer page anyway. > > > Thanks to all who joined the meeting > > Andreas. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/Meeting > [2] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/ch-sentinel.en.html > [3] git://anonscm.debian.org/blends/projects/gis.git > [4] > http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/ap-DevelDescription.en.html#s-webpagecreation > [5] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=blends/website.git;a=blob;f=misc/tools/blends_websentinel_update > [6] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks/ > [7] > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/install_icons_and_menus.sh#L34 > [8] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB > [9] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks/workstation#osgearth > [10] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/thermometer/ > [11] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis > [12] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianGis > [13] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/Repository > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > _______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > Ubuntu@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list Ubuntu@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki