| | 1 | = GDAL/OGR Annual Report 2016 and first half 2017 = |
| | 2 | * Period covered by report: Jan-2016 Jun-2017 |
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| | 4 | == Key Accomplishments == |
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| | 6 | * Two major milestones with the release of [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.0-News GDAL 2.1.0] in April 2016 and [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.2.0-News GDAL 2.2.0] in April 2017. Adding 12 new drivers and implementing 5 new RFCs for GDAL 2.1.0, and 7 new drivers and implementing 4 nw RFCs for GDAL 2.2.0. Many other improvements in various areas. |
| | 7 | * In addition to those featur versions, 9 maintenance releases [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.4-News 1.11.4], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.2-News 2.0.2], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.5-News 1.11.5], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.3-News 2.0.3], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.1-News 2.1.1], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.2-News 2.1.2], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.3-News 2.1.3], [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.4-News 2.1.4] and [https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.2.1-News 2.2.1] have been issued, fixing hundreds of defects. |
| | 8 | * The Google Summer of Code 2016 edition was the opportunity for Avyav Kumar Singh to work on adding support for 3 new geometry types in the OGR data model (was merged in GDAL 2.2), and for Alexandr Borzykh to develop a free and open source driver to read Autocad DWG r2000 (merged in GDAL 2.2 too) |
| | 9 | * One new committer in 2016: Lucian Plesea |
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| | 11 | == Events == |
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| | 13 | GDAL was presented at FOSS4G-Fr 2016, FOSS4G 2016 and FOSS4G-Europe 2017 |
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| | 15 | == Areas for Improvement == |
| | 16 | * Continue clearing the backlog of tickets |
| | 17 | |
| | 18 | == Opportunities to Help == |
| | 19 | * Contribute to documentation - especially FAQ, special build notes, language specific examples and suggestions and general how-to topics - add these in the Trac wiki! |
| | 20 | * Testing and quality bug reports are always valuable. |
| | 21 | * People are always welcome to help reviewing code contributions & volunteer to do releases (hint to developers with commit rights), answer user questions and take part to bugfixing. |
| | 22 | * While new features can generally be funded, most of non-customer-specific day-to-day maintenance is not. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | == Outlook for end 2017-2018 == |
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| | 26 | * The GDAL 2.3.0 version currently in development should be released in theory accordingly to the usual yearly release cycle around April or May 2018. |
| | 27 | * New maintenance GDAL 2.2.x releases foreseen in the meantime. |
| | 28 | * Lots of security releated fixes due to the participation to the [https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz OSS-Fuzz] initiative. |
