Yep you are right Cameron, all the project you listed will have a
great benefit from a unique
UbuntuGIS repository.
Jachym is doing a really great work with his repository ( GRASS, Gdal,
Mapserver, ecc..) and jef-norbit ( sorry don't know who he is) for
Qgis.
So I wonder, what do you think if we start by merging this 2 projects
on UbuntuGIS inside Launchpad?
Bye
Luca
2008/12/21 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com>:
I think the time is ripe to revitalise the UbuntuGIS project, and I want to
find a suitable email list to work from.
Debian team, I suspect that the packaging work done in Ubuntu GIS is going
to be much the same as for Debian and we would benefit by having the same
list for both.
Is this ok? Or would you prefer we found another email list?
*Some background*
The UbuntuGIS project https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS was quite active a
year or two ago, and has done a good job packaging a number of the GIS
packages into Ubuntu. However, the key developers left and I was handed the
administrator token.
Recently, I've been getting a more and more emails (as administrator) asking
about the state of Ubuntu GIS and offers to help out.
In parallel, there has been a lot of work happening on:
a live DVD: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
GIS Virtual Machine: http://www.gisvm.com/
Portable GIS: http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/
All these projects will benefit greatly by having the gis packages bundled
into .deb files in Ubuntu, using UbuntuGIS as a Meta-package for all the
other projects.