Frank, Even, all GDAL devs, a big "thank you" from the GRASS GIS community!
Frank, your initial contribution was r.in.gdal on Sep 26, 2000: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/1688 r.in.gdal got released the first time with GRASS GIS 5.0: https://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass50beta10.html ... 18 years ago! Thanks again for all your efforts to develop GDAL! Markus On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:54 PM Frank Warmerdam <warmer...@pobox.com> wrote: > Even, > > Wow, 20 years! Thanks for pointing out this milestone. > > It is a huge pleasure to know that: > - it has been a core technology supporting so many other software packages > and projects > - it has been a project that lots of people have felt comfortable > contributing to > > GDAL is the core of our data processing pipeline at Planet where we have a > number of esoteric internal GDAL drivers, so I continue to use it every day. > > Special thanks to Even who's outsize contribution has kept the project > healthy and progressing as I focused on other activities. > > Best regards, > Frank > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:51 PM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I nearly missed it [1] (actually I'm already on the 18th here, but let's >> consider >> Canadian time so still on the 17th), but exactly 20 years go on Oct 17th >> 1998, >> Frank Warmerdam committed for the first time in the CSV repository. >> >> ''' >> commit 149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552 >> Author: Frank Warmerdam <warmer...@pobox.com> >> Date: Sat Oct 17 19:24:36 1998 +0000 >> >> Initial implementation. >> >> >> git-svn-id: https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk@2 >> f0d54148-0727-0410-94bb-9a71ac55c965 >> ''' >> >> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/149db916aafcbee9bb64572fafda83441c94a552 >> >> 169 lines for a first version of the virtual I/O layer... >> >> Since then, >> * 39075 commits have been added on top of it, >> * 159 raster drivers >> * 96 vector drivers [2] >> * by 161 committers (actually there are more contributors, here just counting >> the ones who have directly authored a CVS, SVN or git commit), >> * adding 7110 files in the repository, for a grand total of >> * 2.192 millions lines in 3745 files with extensions c, cpp, h, hh, hpp, py, >> html, java, cs, i, pl, vc, sh, bat, dox, ac, GNUmakefile (80 MB) (all the >> text files) >> so an average of 300 lines per day added >> * 64 releases >> * 6287 tickets closed >> * 49097 messages posted on gdal-dev >> * more than 100 software proudly mentionning using it >> >> Happy birthday and long life to GDAL and its commmnity of contributors, >> either >> by code, documentation, testing, packaging, reports, ... ! >> >> Even >> >> [1] thanks to Robert Coup for reminding me a few days ago about the >> approaching date ! >> [2] you'll note that 155 + 96 = 255, but I don't think there's a >> Byte limitation for the number of drivers ... >> >> -- >> Spatialys - Geospatial professional services >> http://www.spatialys.com > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com > light and sound - activate the windows | > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Markus Neteler, PhD http://www.mundialis.de - free data with free software http://grass.osgeo.org http://courses.neteler.org/blog _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev