[Freegis-list] seagis

[Allan Doyle]

On Sunday 2002-03-03 at 11:38:49(+0100) Walter Harms wrote:
 > there a different solutions depending who deep you like to go. At one end
 > there is *.lsm (convention with ibiblio.org) basicly a readme that tell you about the maintainer etc.
 > The other end of the spectra is CVS (and friends) that allows you to get
 > snapshots and individual files etc from a common server.
 > 
 > Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess the *lsm is ok.  Or should he place a link to your CVS-server (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :)
 > 

It's not so much "what I want", it's "what will make the FreeGIS
people's lives easier?

If every Free Software project has a URL where an XML file lives, with
things like this in it:

<ProjectSummary>

  <CurrentVersion>0.9</CurrentVersion>
  <HomePage>http://myproject.org/</HomePage>
  <Maintainer>me at myproject.org</Maintainer>
  <AnonCVS access="yes">foo:project</AnonCVS>
     ...

</ProjectSummary>

In other words XML encoded project metadata.

Then an automatic harvester could check for updates to this and add
them into the FreeGIS database. Or people could send an email to
FreeGIS when an update occurs, or better yet, could HTTP POST to a URL
on the FreeGIS site that has an update CGI script behind it.

freshmeat.net does have a DTD for this kind of thing
  http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-projects-0.1.dtd

They also have a 26 Mbyte file which I did not look at but which must
have one entry per project:
  http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-projects.rdf

I suspect sourceforge.net has a similar metadata system, but I didn't
find it during a very quick look... They do have something called the
"trove" which is the searchable index of projects. People can
apparently opt-in to place their projects in the trove.

In any case, I don't want to make this seem like a big deal, it was is
just an idea to make life easier for people who maintain lists like
the FreeGIS list.

   Allan


 > 	walter
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 > From: Allan Doyle <adoyle at intl-interfaces.com>
 > Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] seagis
 > Date: 03/02/02 21:41
 > 
 > On Saturday 2002-03-02 at 17:04:48(+0100) Bernhard Reiter wrote:
 >  > Thanks for sending the note.
 >  > I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry.
 > 
 > This makes me wonder. Is there some convention for software projects
 > that can encode the status of the project (version #, comments, URL,
 > maintainers, etc.) that could always be in a specific place for each
 > project?
 > 
 > Sort of like the RSS news syndication spec. Short and simple, but
 > makes everyone's life easier.
 > 
 > Then Bernhard and his FreeGIS site people could just pick up the new
 > version numbers automatically.
 > 
 > Freshmeat may have something like this. I'll try to take a look next
 > time I have a minute. If someone beats me to it, I won't be upset :)
 > 
 >      Allan
 > 
 >  > Please let us know if you publish further version and
 >  > if you feel the description should be improved in some ways.
 >  > You (and everybody) can also mail these more technical
 >  > bit about maintaining freegis to the new team at freegis.org list.
 >  >
 >  > I'Ve looked around on the seagis pages and I think that keeping a changelog
 >  > would benefit people who track the seagis project loosely.
 >  > Additionally the relations to other Free Software projects
 >  > would benfit the readers, like a link to freegis.org and
 >  > explaination of the differences and commons to other Free Software
 >  > doing related things like PROJ.
 >  >
 >  > 	Bernhard
 >  >
 >  > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:57:13PM +0000, Felipe Nievinski wrote:
 >  > > http://seagis.sourceforge.net/
 >  > >
 >  > > SEAGIS is an open source project implementing a subset of OpenGIS®
 >  > > Coordinate Transformation Services Specification and OpenGIS® Grid
 >  > > Coverages Implementation Specification.
 >  >
 >  > > License: LGPL
 >  >
 >  > > Help wanted
 >  >
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