= GDAL Maintenance Reports 2007 by Mateusz Loskot =

== Report 7 - Final ==

From: 2007-06-01

To:   2007-08-30

=== Resolved issues ===

#976 Wrong OGR2OGR conversion

#1229 ogr2ogr doesn't convert 3D and 4D geometries correct

#1415 ogr2ogr/shapefile fails to generate valid polygons with hole touching boundary

#1539 Setup Nightly Snapshots

#1582 Fix the epimetheus slave

#1593 SWIG_MakePtr is undefined in _gdalmodule.so

#1602 The validity of user supplied parameters is not checked in the API

#1634 WINCE: 1.4.1 compile fixes

#1656 ogr2ogr segfault with LCC target projection in ESRI style

#1661 Regenearted ./configure script for 1.4.2

#1666 Broken links to SFS and SRS WKT documentation

#1673 OGR_G_CloseRings side-effect on OGR_G_GetGeometryType

#1676 Incorrect checksum values in tests of Leveller driver

#1704 ogr2ogr kml export of polygons can have incorrect vertex winding order

#1718 OSR ExportToProj4 causes a setfault with an empty reference

#1743 Const correctness in cpl_http module

#1747 Add expat detection to makefiles

#1749 CreateCopy crashes when creating a virtual copy of a vrt data set

#1752 Make new method in OGREnvelope following const-correctness

#1755 The area of a linear ring is not computed correctly

#1756 CreateDataSource segfaults in some cases

#1773 Broken big tiff settings in configure.in

#1786 Buffer overflow in JPEG driver


=== Other activities ===

 * Buildbot maintenance
 * Testing and troubleshooting
 * Updated tests in autotest package
 * Wiki editions
   * [wiki:FAQ]
   * [wiki:JP2KAK]
   * [wiki:Buildbot]
   * [wiki:DownloadingGdalBinaries]
   * [wiki:FWTools]
   * [wiki:GdalOgrCsharpCompile]
   * [wiki:GdalOgrInPython]
   * [wiki:XmlParser]
   * [wiki:AutotestStatus]
   * [wiki:rfc5_unicode]
   * [wiki:BugSquash2007]
   * [wiki:CodeSnippets]
 * Providing support to GDAL users (IRC, ~35 posts on gdal-dev)

== Report 6 ==

From: 2007-05-16

To:   2007-05-30

''2 weeks break (medical leave)''

=== Updated issues ===

#1508 configure should check for Python.h before enabling Python (backported to 1.4 branch)

#1606 Improve documentation on OGR SQL (w.r.t MySQL and SQLite) (backported to 1.4 branch)

#1622 BLOB support in MySQL driver not working (backported to 1.4 branch)

Applied fixes to CPL for Windows CE port
  
=== Other activities ===

 * IRC talks and some support
 * Wiki updates
 * Testing a few issues reported by users  
 * Tested fixes of GRASS plugin
 
== Report 5 ==

From: 2007-05-04

To:   2007-05-15

(started 2 weeks break)

=== Resolved issues ===

#1606 Improve documentation on OGR SQL (w.r.t MySQL and SQLite)

#1622 BLOB support in MySQL driver not working

#1623 BLOB support in SQLite driver not working

=== Other activities ===

 * Prepared autotest cases for fixes of #1622 and #1623 (waiting for BLOB support in Python bindings)
 * Wiki
 * Updated OGR documentation and tutorial
 * Buildbot maintenance
 * ~25 posts on the mailing list
 * Ad-hoc fixes for broken builds detected by buildbot (ie. r11463)
 * Testing binaries
 
== Report 4 ==

From: 2007-04-16

To:   2007-04-30

=== Resolved issues ===

#738 It seems OGR uses reference counting inconsistently, what result in memory leak

#755 minixml - can't read complex DOCTYPE elements

#823 GDAL compiling under GRASS 6.0

#970 OGRMakeWktCoordinate overflow

#1013 gdalwarp with output GTiff separate deflate fails

#1223 OGRSFDriver::CreateDataSource creates data source with NULL driver

#1321 OGR-ODBC] : DECIMAL field not recognised

#1412 Schema names are not quoted by OGR tools (ogrinfo/ogr2ogr) when using PostGIS as datasource

#1575 Need to limit KML Polygon Complexity

#1576 Crash during destruction of shapefile datasources without spatial references

#1577 Compiling OGR/ILI with Xerces 3.0

#1579 Missing includes in ILWIS driver for GCC 4.3

#1583 Trim precision in numbers of test geometries in WKB files

#1587 Error compiling gdal-grass against gdal 1.4.1

#1588 Need to write unsupported projects as PE strings in HFA driver

#1593 SWIG_MakePtr is undefined in _gdalmodule.so (waiting for 1.4.2 release to confirm the fix)

=== Analysed and discussed issues ===

#249 [OGR-GML] GML driver doesn't recognize GML files with 0 features

#976 Wrong OGR2OGR conversion

#1172 GDAL OVF OCI does not work with SrcSQL

#1229 ogr2ogr doesn't convert 3D and 4D geometries correct

#1560 C# namespace names and module names should follow the .NET framework naming guidelines (fixed by Tamas)

#1594 Memory allocation error during SPATIAL INDEX creation for Shapefile

=== Other activities ===

 * Tested official binaries for Windows
 * Updates to Wiki
 * ~60 posts on the mailing list and a few hours of support by IRC 
 * Provided direct support to a few users by e-mail
 * Reviewed old and very old tickets
 * Buildbot maintenance

== Report 3 ==

From: 2007-04-01

To:   2007-04-15

(only 6 of 10 work days)

=== Resolved issues ===

#738 It seems OGR uses reference counting inconsistently, what result in memory leak

#755 minixml - can't read complex DOCTYPE elements

#1412 Schema names are not quoted by OGR tools (ogrinfo/ogr2ogr) when using PostGIS as datasource

#1497 Use EnhancedPrecisionOp for difference and intersection operations

#1534 OGR GML reader fails if file has UTF-8 BOM prefix

#1537 ogr_sql: FID not usable in WHERE clause

#1539 Setup Nightly Snapshots

#1556 Missing recent CPLString improvements in branches/1.4

#1566 Proposal of gdalsplit utility

#1572 PG incorrectly recognizes layers from non-default schema

=== Analysed and discussed issues ===

#770 Specify proj4text in spatial_ref_sys table of PostGIS

#952 Array bounds error

#976 Wrong OGR2OGR conversion

#1442 Feature.GetFieldAsInteger does not behave correctly on non existant field

#1507 GDALRasterIO crashes for width values higher than 2048 with LZW enabled

=== Other activities ===

 * Updated tests:
   * minixml.py
   * ogr_sql.py
   * ogr_gml.py
   * fast.py
   * hfa.py
 
 * Configured autotest package under Windows with Visual C++ 8.0 builds and native Python binaries
 
 * Testing beta and stable versions of 1.4.1 release

 * Around 30 e-mails to the gdal-dev and around 20 off-list with support to users

 * A few hours on the #gdal channel

 * Prepared GDAL binaries on request from Windows users

 * New pages on Wiki

 * A few tasks about administration of Trac, Buildbot and GDAL website

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== Report 2 ==

From: 2007-03-19

To:   2007-03-31

=== Resolved issues ===

#1000 HFA reading code does not handle reduced precision properly

#1036 XYMZ data in WKT leads to an error

#1166 gdalnumeric does only support old Numeric package

#1195 Naked ewkb from postigs (queried through python) causes OGR to segfault

#1323 XYZM data cannot be read from wkb

#1389 problem w/ date fields using ogr2ogr to load shapefile into postgis

#1429 Additional fixes to VSI*L and "errno" setting.

#1432 [OGR] Seg fault in ~OGRKMLDataSource()

#1445 (Partially fixed) GetFeature() not implemented efficiently for server based drivers

#1522 class ERSHdrNode has no member named FindElem

#1523 GIMP JPEG error, Spaced World File error

#1539 Setup Nightly Snapshots

=== Analysed and discussed issues ===

#1321 [OGR-ODBC] : DECIMAL field not recognised

#1484 NHD (ESRI) geodatabase reading problems

#1528 Random crashes when using OGR SQL in -where clause

#1547 Patch for mingw bug in strdup

=== Other activities ===

 * Added or improved tests of:
  * FAST
  * OGR PG
  * HFA

 * GDAL sources refactoring and improvements

 * Cleaned 300 reports on Bugzilla after migration to Trac

 * SWIG Perl tests added to Buildbot

 * Tested GDAL with MinGW buildbot configuration (deferred)

 * Provided support (>30 posts)

 * Ad-hoc troubleshooting 

 * Investigated and tested building SWIG Java, for Buildbot (deferred)


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== Report 1 ==

From: 2007-03-01

To:   2007-03-16

=== Resolved issues ===

#1429 VSI*L and "errno" setting.

#1430 [GDAL] ODBC postgresql information schema problems

#1431 Bug, PostgreSQL driver  -lco LAUNDER=YES

#1472 Disabling SEQSCAN is now a *bad* idea.

#1474 PostGIS fetches 1 at a time

#1508 configure should check for Python.h before enabling Python

#1514 Query results not cleaned in Soft Transactions of PG

#1516 LANDSAT 7 FAST read problems (finally fixed by Andrey)

#1521 New: Delete feature - .dbf file getting deleted

#1524 New: Fail to read case-sensitive shapefile names

There were also a few minor issues resolved and some submissions not reported on the Bugzilla.

=== Analysed and discussed issues ===

#543 OCI driver: getExtent should use USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA

#1248 Please add transaction support to ogr2ogr for the postgres driver

#1445 GetFeature() not implemented efficiently for server based drivers

#1476 Improper handling of Postgis tables with multiple geometry columns

=== Other activities ===

 * Updated documentation for drivers:
  * ODBC
  * PGeo
  * PG

 * Added new tests to the GDAL autotest package:
  * FAST

 * Added new test cases to:
  * Shape
  * AAIGrid

 * Started analysis of GDAL [http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/gdal/autotest-coverage.txt tests coverage]

 * Improved GDAL Buildbot configuration

 * Support on the gdal-dev list (~50 posts) and #gdal channel

 * TracWiki [http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/gdal/gdal-tracwiki-proposal.txt subjects proposal]