Christmas GRASS GIS potential contributors meeting in Raleigh

Discussed topics

• How tickets work, example: #2750
• Writing a GRASS module
  • Example Python module (r.shade)
  • Example C module (r.patch)
• Paralleling, Parallelizing Scripts, Parallel GRASS jobs, OpenMP
• Mailing list
• Manuals
• Review and testing
  • Continuous integration (builds) on Travis
  • Automated testing (results on NCSU server fatra, example result for one day, documenation)
    • example test contribution
  • GRASS GIS Trac Timeline
  • Example of file history: wxGUI mapcalc change log and authorship per line
  • Open Hub statistics
• GRASS GIS Database with maps in native format versus linked files, e.g. using r.external
• Logo resources
• Installation versus compilation on Ubuntu
  • installation from PPA

Press release

(to be submitted to GeoForAll Newsletter)