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 !

1. On going projects ?
2. Community
   1. Committees
3. On going proposal
4. Discussion on architecture updates
   1. Security
   2. domain model
   3. logging
   4. i18n
   5. Schema plugin
5. Webspecs testing
6. Repository migration to GitHub
7. Wishlist
8. R&D
9. Presentations

On going projects ?

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.

On going proposal

• See proposals page
• Data Catalog Vocabulary and RDF services

Discussion on architecture updates

Security

• Status on ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals/ImprovedSecurityArchitecture
• CAS support & LDAP improvements (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?

Schema plugin

• Schematron ​http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Schema-plugins-and-schematron-rules-td4962553.html

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