Monday, April 06, 2009

Current tasks for DebianGis

I'm still waiting some clarificatons by HDF team about their HDF5 roadmap with SONAMEs and libraries name. It seems they partially learned to manage libtool properly to follow C API changes, but still some oddities are present, such as using the same names for MPI and serial flavors. I will probably have to again diverge from upstream names, which is generally something I don't like, as in the case of GDAL. A summary document about HDF5 plans is due in a brief also.
When finished with HDF updates, I will concentrate on a couple of new beasts which still are lacking in DebianGis and are of so much interest, that are Ossim and the CNES Orfeo Toolbox. In the meantime I would hope that debian-science team will define a squeeze-related policy for MPI.

As always, I'm still worried of the low level of activities in the DebianGis team, which is a constant since years. Unfortunately, this is a situation I see quite common also in many other teams, but I still don't see a right way to improve the status of the team to avoid an almost one-man show. Also I would like to see again Qgis in main, but I'm still waiting for feed-backs by past/current contributors to my last qgis-dev list and off-lists polls.