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