Development

2006-11-11T15:54:32Z

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The GRASS GIS project is developed under the terms of the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License] (the GPL) [http://grass.ibiblio.org/devel/index.php in the open] by [http://grass.ibiblio.org/community/index.php volunteers] the [http://mapserver.gdf-hannover.de/grassusers/map.phtml world over].

=== Resources for Developers ===

==== Communication ====
* You can contact GRASS folks in [[How to participate in IRC communication|IRC]]
* [http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev Developers mailing list]

==== Documentation ====
* [http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#prog GRASS Programming Manual]
* [[GRASS Programming Howto]] (partially outdated)
* [[Updating GRASS Documentation]] How-To
* [[GIS Concepts]] and how they are implemented in GRASS
* [[GRASS Debugging]]
* [[Large File Support]] (LFS) implementation
* '''Code submission standards''':
** [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/source/SUBMITTING C language coding standards]
** [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/source/SUBMITTING_SCRIPTS Shell script coding standards]
** [http://grass.itc.it/grass61/source/SUBMITTING_TCLTK Tcl/Tk script coding standards]

==== Code ====
* [http://grass.ibiblio.org/devel/cvs.php CVS server] | [http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ GRASS WebCVS interface] browsable source code repository
* [http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass GRASS bug and wish tracking system]
* [[GRASS AddOns]] (User contributions)
* [[Testing GRASS software]] - a test protocol based on the Spearfish sample data set
* [[Compile and Install]]

==== Source code quality control ====
* [http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/GRASS CIA commit bot] for realtime monitoring along with [http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-commit grass-commit] mailing list (showing the diff's)
* [http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-qa Code Quality Control System]
* [http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/grass-evolution/grass-browsers/grass-index-en.html GRASS Software Evolution code analysis]
* [http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/ GRASS Test Suite] a small test suite for GRASS, the current html output is available [http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/html/ here] and with memory check [http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/html_memcheck/ here]

=== GRASS and QGIS ===

* [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BuildingWindowsBinaryOnLinux Building QGIS/GRASS Windows Binary On Linux] (using MinGW)
* [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/Adding_New_Tools_to_the_GRASS_Toolbox Adding New Tools to the GRASS Toolbox]
* [http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/GrassCookbook QGIS GRASS Cookbook] - Recipes for common tasks

=== GRASS License ===

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl WikiPedia entry discussing the GPL]

=== Plans ===

===== Overview =====

* [[Release Roadmap]] (old [http://grass.ibiblio.org/devel/roadmap.php Development Roadmap] which needs freshening) - please help with testing release candidates
* [[GRASS Module Porting List]] (check here if you don't find a certain command in GRASS 6.0)
* [[GRASS ToDo List]] (overview of GRASS related community projects, see also [[Release Roadmap]])
* [http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/doc/vector/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup GRASS 6-CVS Vector TODO]

===== Sandbox (ideas section) =====

* [[GRASS 7 ideas collection]]
* [[Image processing]]
* [http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/grdss/index.php GRDSS (Geographic Resources Decision Support System)]
* Ideas on a [[replacement raster format]] specification
* add support (at least storage!) of vertical datum and units
* Discussion on [[Development Specs]] for standardized messages
* Discussion on add-on manager repository setup: [[Development GEM|GEM repository]]
* Discussion of support for [[time series in GRASS]], e.g. for linking to data and models
* [[GRASS GUI]] development
* [[GRASS Location Wizard]] development

=== Linking GRASS to external languages ===
* [http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass63progman/swig/ GRASS-SWIG interface]: generic interface to various languages
* [[GRASS and PHP]]
* [[GRASS and Python]]
* [[GRASS and Shell]]: Starting and running GRASS from a script
* [http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-abm Integration of GRASS with JAVA based agent based modeling (ABM)]
* [http://www.hydrologis.com/html/jgrass/jgrass_en.html JAVAGRASS]

=== Related projects ===

* [http://www.hydrologis.com/html/jgrass/jgrass_en.html JGrass] - Java based frontend for GRASS incuding extended hydrological modelling tools
* [http://www.kergis.com/en/index.html KerGIS] - BSD-like licensed fork of GRASS 4.1.5

* [http://proj.maptools.org PROJ.4] - Cartographic Projections Library
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
* [http://www.qgis.org QGIS]- Quantum GIS

* [http://www.osgeo.org OSGeo]- The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
* [http://freegis.org FreeGIS.org] - Interactive information base for the GIS Free Software world

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2006-05-29T18:12:30Z

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2006-05-29T18:06:00Z

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