Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Greek Inspire Metadata Editor (gimed)

2010-11-11 Thread strk
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:48:38PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote: Noted case, how many years it took Flash to really be usable without crazy hacks on linux. Flash is still not usable without crazy hacks if you don't want non-free software on your computer. Free software programmers should pay

[OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread Sjur Kolberg
Hello, Is there any mechanism in the bug tracking systems being used, that can export the distribution (histogram or mean) of time taken from a bug report is filed to it is declared successfully closed? I guess I could figure that out manually by reading through all tickets; that is probably

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread Jody Garnett
You can often export the bug database out into excel for analysis. You may need to play with the results to focus on problem reporting. Why? Often open source projects end up with wish list bugs that do not fall within anyone's funding or mandate. Personally I would love to see the difference

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread Jody Garnett
Just to put myself on the line ... For GeoTools the bug tracker is here: - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT The initial page shows the current open vs close rate. If you click on Reports you can get a resolution time report; you will need to sign in first. Jody On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread maning sambale
IMO, listing bugs vis-a-vis response time can be counter-productive. Generally, we have more bugs than being squashed because a lot of people are reporting them (which is a good thing btw). I prefer concrete examples when highlighting bug response time. For example, during one of our training, a

[OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI-OSS: just FYI

2010-11-11 Thread Tomasz.Kubik
Hi, Exploring SourceForge I have found: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/geoportal/index.php?title=Main_Page Is it a proof for the strong impact of FOSS community on proprietary software providers? Tomasz Kubik ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI-OSS: just FYI

2010-11-11 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
As many people have said already, it seems to be pure marketing. As Cedric Moullet said on Twitter [1]: ArcGIS Server Geoportal goes OpenSource. Just a joke, ArcGis Server is required... it's again a marketing campaign useless for SDI ! As Jeroen Ticheler said on Twitter [2]: Pure coincidence?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread Alex Mandel
On 11/11/2010 02:12 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: On 11/11/10 09:43, Sjur Kolberg wrote: I am trying to convince people that open source GIS is a better solution than buying proprietary software. Such discussions follow a well-known path (is it mature/stable? How about support? All our clients

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Bug report response time

2010-11-11 Thread strk
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:12:05PM +, Mateusz Loskot wrote: Hypothesis 0: There is no relation between an open source development of a project and fast pace of fixing bugs Hypothesis 1: There is relation between an open source development of a project and fast pace of fixing bugs I