Hi Patrick,
I haven't tried your 24dev-demo yet. Sorry.
My current suspicion is that 24dev-demo would need to mature if it were
to attract a community and become a sustained project.
OSGeo-Live focuses on promoting established projects, and I don't think
24dev-demo is there yet. To see what we promote, see:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply
and
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
Building a mature project and establishing a brand represents a lot of
effort. I suspect a more successful path for you - if you wish to follow
it, would involve incorporating your efforts into the existing
OSGeo-Live build process. An "addon" to the existing build process, as
you suggest. Again, this is quite a bit of effort, in particular around
testing.
So the main question I'm alluding to is, to get to the level of quality
which attracts community, there is a huge amount of effort (often
researching technologies you are not familiar with) and leadership
reaching out to communities. It is probably worth asking yourself the
question of do you have the time? Or is your time better spent focusing
on your core project goals?
Cheers, Cameron
On 6/10/2015 7:13 am, Patrick McGovern wrote:
Cameron,
Your build process is fine, I am not proposing any new changes to
OSGeo Live.
This demo _*Addon process*_ is intended to serve as a adhoc sandbox
development environment for interested users. A live DVD has finite
room for applications but running the 24dev-demo process *alongside
*OSGeo Live provides an handy platform to showcase custom applications
without re-mastering your OS. For example, I hope to update my r4st
application so that others could peruse it and could easily adapt it
to their needs if desired. The OSGeo Live environment allows me to
easily configure the environment.
Likewise others could build and add their apps to the process, making
it easy for anyone to see exactly how it was done AND the
configurations required to make it work. I think it would be great
for educational/Demo purposes and creating applications that are
"proven" to work in a given environment.
Did you try extracting and running 24dev-demo on an OSGeo Live DVD?
Thanks,
Pat
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Cameron Shorter
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Patrick,
From reading your description, it seems there is quite a bit of
overlap from what you are describing and the existing OSGeo-Live
build process?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Build
Long term, I see it as preferable to only maintain one build
process rather than many.
If there are advantages to your approach which our existing build
process doesn't address, then maybe you would be able to help us
improve our existing process.
Am I missing something?
Cheers, Cameron
On 5/10/2015 8:27 am, Patrick McGovern wrote:
All,
The OSGeo Live DVD has a great collection of software and is a
unique development environment. I created a customizable
_*Addon*_, "24dev-demo" for prototyping applications and scripts
for the OSGeo Live DVD.
This demo is intended to provide users with an easy way to try
and develop applications alongside OSGeo. The "24dev" name is a
play on words for: "Two For DEVelopment", via the Open Source
Community (OSC) and you the Open Source Developer (OSD).
I have uploaded the tar file to github at 24dev-demo
<https://github.com/pmcgover/24dev-demo>. I hope to add a GIS
application in a future release. Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Pat McGovern
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