deegree Summit: Joint PSC and TMC Meeting (2012-01-24)

PSC Attendees: HermanAssink, JensFitzke, (not: KlausGreve)

TMC Attendees: ReijerCopier, AndreasSchmitz, MarkusSchneider, JohannesWilden

Guests: TorstenFriebe

1. Agenda

• Welcome
• Agenda review
• 3.2 release
• deegree day
• Targeted runtime environments
• Other Public relation activities
  • Website and Wiki
  • Documentation
  • List of demos and applications
  • Wikipedia GIS page
  • deegree book (Tyler's mail)
• Other project organisation and infrastructure issues
  • Roadmap (including handling of tracker feature requests)
  • Code repository software
  • Documentation issues
  • Components and their maintainers
• Other business
  • Commercial aspects (Herman's request)
  • deegree and mainstream Java technology
  • Comparison to other FOSS software packages
  • OSGeo shoot-out
  • Next meeting

2. Discussions, Decisions and Actions

Meeting duration: 1000 - 1630 CET

The meeting agenda has been adjusted as above.

2.1. 3.2 release

• Release date: Still to be defined (somewhere between March and May 2012)
• The release is labeled the "INSPIRE release", indicating that it is the first deegree release covering all features currently required by the INSPIRE implementation roadmap
• Features included (among others):
  • CRS bugfixes (performance and axis order issue)
  • Layers / Themes in WMS
  • Tiles / WMTS (Not: Cache)
  • WFS improvements
  • General improvements

• Improvements in the SQL FeatureStore and new implementation of security features have been removed from the feature list.

• Actions:
  • Share CRS issue analysis effort (all)
  • Share the development costs (Herman: "For the cheapest solution to solve the problem"). Intended budget is 5-6 days.
  • Verify functional scope of the release wrt. INSPIRE requirements (Herman with Geonovum, lat/lon team)

2.2. deegree day

• Decision: deegree day shall take place later in 2012, in October or November, in Bonn
• The rationale is: All outreach activities to raise the awareness of the 3.2 release shall have highest priority
• Actions:
  • Find suitable meeting date options (Klaus with Uniclub)

2.3. Targeted runtime environments

• Decision: deegree shall have a general Java runtime environments compatibility list. For deegree 3 it has been agreed upon the following environments:
• Supported runtime environments:
  • OpenJDK 7: Preferred platform
  • Oracle JDK 6 and 7: Supported platforms
• Supported servlet containers:
  • Apache Tomcat 7: Preferred platform
  • Apache Tomcat 6: Supported platform
• The public information of these lists shall be accompanied by general compatibility statements like: "Any Java 6/Servlet 2.5/JSF 2.0 implementation should work"

2.4. Other Public relation activities

• Discussion: The following list of outreach tools has been collected (where the first 4 items are considered to be of highest priority):
  • Web site
  • Download packages, including demos
  • Documentation for users
  • Press release
  • Wiki
  • Conferences
  • Articles
  • Documentation for developers
  • Social media
  • deegree page on Wikipedia
  • OSgeo: various web and wiki pages
  • Book on deegree
  • University lectures
  • Tutorials, howtos
  • Videos
  • Tracker
• Discussion: The following target groups can be identified (where specifically decision makers and software administrators in the SDI implementors group are considered to be of highest priority):
  • Developers (as code contributors / as library users)
  • Research / academics
  • SDI implementors: Decision makers, software administrators, "end users" with application domain perspective
• Decision: All short-term outreach activities shall be focussed on promoting the 3.2. "INSPIRE release"
• Decision: A lower priority is assigned to outreach activities targeting at developers. This is considered to be a more long-term activity.
• Long discussion about focus and tools for documentation with the result that contents and quality and maintainability of the documentation do not necessarily depend on tools used.
• Actions:
  • Present documentation prototype to all (Markus)
  • Give feedback on this prototype prior to next meeting (all)
  • Organize future (short-term, mid-term) documentation process (all, next meeting)
  • Define tools scope for Web, Wiki and Documentation (all, ongoing, next meeting)
  • Subsequently: Change/Update/Enhance Web, Wiki and Documentation
  • Define and prepare download packages
  • Write a press release

2.5. Other business

• Next meeting: Shall be an online meeting.

• Action to set up a doodle for a date in about 2 weeks (Jens): http://www.doodle.com/4r3p7kkrm5pn8it8

2.6. Agenda items not covered

• Other project organisation and infrastructure issues
  • Roadmap (including handling of tracker feature requests)
  • Code repository software
  • Components and their maintainers
• Other business
  • Commercial aspects (Herman's request)
  • deegree and mainstream Java technology
  • Comparison to other FOSS software packages
  • OSGeo shoot-out

3. Other information

Venue: Schloss Oberhausen - Restaurant Kaisergarten (http://www.kaisergarten.de)

Time: Tuesday 24 Jan, 0900 - 1500 CET

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