A task list for Debian GIS

[Please, remove task when done, add your name if you take a task]

Packages that need updates

• batik needs updating to 1.7 (still beta)
• buoy needs updating to 1.8
• geoip needs updating to 1.4.1
• libterralib needs updating to 3.1.4 (3.2rc1 is out)
• openjump needs updating to 1.2 (still beta)
• gpstrans needs attention, probably orphaned upstream.

Packages in the svn repo but still not in main (they need revision)

• musmap
• roadmap
• marble (needs update to 0.7)

Packages currently in progress

• ossim (FrancescoLovergine)

• gvSIG (was JordiMallach)

• uDig

• orfeo-toolbox (FrancescoLovergine)

Live CD stuff

• See the DebianGis/LiveImages wiki page

• Add and fix the menu and freedesktop.org files in debian-gis packages
• Artwork and branding (grub boot, desktop splash, desktop wallpaper) - competition on debianart.org
• Some kind of intro document that is auto-loaded into a webbrowser on startup
• Provide free data sets as shape files and loaded into postgis database.

Long term goals

• Quality Assurance:
  • Implementing a piupart-based thingy to periodically check installation status of all interested packages

  • Things to add to the status script: RC counters et al, see DebianGis/EdiMeetingMinutes

• DebianGis Backports: mantaining an up-to-date backported toolchain (gdal+grass+qgis+postgis+mapserver at least) for stable

• Java related tools: Java has become a primary tool language for GIS serious application. We miss many of them and Java is moving to main.

• Perl GIS modules: CPAN maintains a large collection of GIS related modules that we have not in the archive.

• GRASS add-ons: contributed modules for GRASS.

• Adding most of R spatial packages

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