Bolsena 2012 - draft agenda

For the 5th time, the ​Bolsena OSGeo Hacking Event is taking place. This page lists some ideas that can be discussed within the GeoNetwork faction.

Please add any idea you have here !

Community

Committees

• Review what's improved, for the Advisory Board and the Program Steering Committee, since last year
• Many times, PSC members do not vote on proposals within the allotted time frame for that. How can we improve on that.

GeoNetwork

• On going projects ?

Discussion on architecture updates

Security

• Status on ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/ImprovedSecurityArchitecture
• CAS support (Jesse & Francois)

domain model

Considering GeoNetwork's functionality, you might expect there exist a class called Metadata, representing metadata. Sadly, this is not the case. The lack of a domain model makes doing changes to GeoNetwork very much more difficult and encourages source code pasta. Let's model our domain, and while at it, use ​Hibernate to have the domain classes hide the database.

logging

There is no point in maintaining a home-made logging facility when there are de facto standard libraries for this. Let's replace GN logging with ​slf4j, and back it by the venerable ​log4j.

i18n

We have localisation in a very large number of xml files, in the database, and in yet different locations for Javascript. It would be most welcome to have 1 single place for all translations. At the very least, is there anything against merging all the xml files into a single file per language?

Webspecs testing

The last code spring I (Jesse) created a small suite of integration tests by taking the existing Geonetwork integration tests and combining them with some tests back ported form Geocat integration tests. I also started a maven module that would run the tests when ran with the profile integration-tests. Since then I have updated the tests and fixed bugs based on those tests. I would like to commit this work and back-port more tests.

In addition I have started working on some javascript tests. I would like to see them integrated into the build.

Repository migration to GitHub

Discussion about advantages/disadvantages of repository migration to GitHub. Tools like ​SubGit seem can help for smooth migration, keeping in synch SVN-GitHub repositories.

Wishlist

R&D

Presentations

confirmed:

• Clustering GeoNetwork, by Jose García & Heikki Doeleman
• Monitoring Webapps (Geonetwork usecase)

requested (who wants to do it?) :

• ​Hadoop, ​NoSQL
• ​SOLR in practice