About "Open CASCADE Technology: Ten Years in Open Source"
About "Open CASCADE Technology: Ten Years in Open Source"
Thomas
2009/12/09 12:48
Thank you to the OpenCascade Team for the really good framework you provide for free to all of us, and keep on with the great work.
As OpenSource user, I would like to propose a "thread of proposals" for a better "open source" experience.
From my self I'd really like to see, always in respect of your business activity :
- An approximative roadmap / release schedule
- A public repository of patches against the latest public version
(or a public repository with the latest version + patches).
- An updated FAQ
- A bug-tracker, at least for the public version (this would , from my POV, increase the "minor version" upgrade users)
- A bit more of online presence , not only for support requests, but also some informative posts (something like Roman is doing).
Other ideas ? :)
Thomas
Roman Lygin
2009/12/09 13:45
Excellent thread Thomas!
(Although I dont remember by heart if it was December 9th, 1999 or some other day I found traces of announcement dated since Dec 7. Perhaps publication was on Dec 20, 1999. Anyway, congratulations to the development team and entire community with 10 years anniversary of Open CASCADE).
My suggestions:
1. Community support and online presence:
a. Better infrastructure: forum with ease of uploading files, images, etc; patch repository
b. Say what you are working on, describe your problems, perhaps you will gather some ideas and feedback on how to do it better
c. Some development contests and so forth (there are plenty of ideas how other companies manage their development communities)
2. More regular community releases:
a. Maintenance releases and/or
b. Source code snapshots (i.e. avoiding overhead of releases packaging, installation, validation, documentation, marketing collateral, etc)
3. Beta releases or some previews gathering community feedback before production releases (can be achieved via 2b).
4. Keep focused on fundamental algorithms quality: both from correctness and performance perspective.
5. New features released with some reasonable information documentation, samples, forum or blog posts describing their use and so forth
6. License: adoption of LGPL or another recognized one
7. Better Tutorial to help people start up faster this still remains a challenge
Roman
Marco Nawijn
2009/12/09 14:19
Dear all,
I completely agree with Thomas on all his points. So yes, as a (wannabee) user I would really like to thank the OpenCascade team for bringing the excellent framework to the open source table.
As a comment to the points raised by Thomas, the 2 most important ones for me (and our company) are a public repository and a bug-tracker. Additionally a wiki page would be nice. In particular for the topics that are addressed often in the forum (building, topological operations etc.)
It would be nice if one of the members of the OpenCascade team would take some time to post their viewpoint on this topic.
Regards,
Marco
Fotis Sioutis
2009/12/09 14:28
Based on the wayback internet archive, the first distribution went public on december 20th 1999 !
Below are some links from 10 years ago that can be interestign even today !
We appreciate all your inputs and we shall prepare our reply to your requests and suggestions for sure.
Best regards,
Forum supervisor
Arthur Magill
2009/12/11 17:48
Hello all,
What Thomas said - thanks to the OpenCascade team. This really is an important package in the open source world, thanks all for releasing it.
As for suggestions, two points are important to me:
1) Online bug-tracker, to centralise discussion about what's broken and what's fixed
(fixes can be hard to spot in the forum)
2) License clarification. I think the spirit of the OCC license and the GPL (or similar) are almost identical. However, those tiny little differences stop major Linux distros from packaging OpenCascade and including it in the repos. That's a great shame - building is still difficult. I think standard packages would increase the number of users significantly.
Again, this is a neat (and huge) library - I hope it continues to receive the recognition it deserves. Here's to the next ten years!
Arthur
yohplala
2009/12/15 10:12
Hi all!
I read in this post from Salome website that (in addition to the release of Salome 5.1.3) a read-only svn to have access to Salome dev branch sources should be accessible by end of January: http://www.salome-platform.org/forum/forum_10/664891954
I was wondering how it will be managed with respect to OpenCascade sources?
If the Salome sources will be available, so will the Open Cascade sources, won't they?
Will there be a kind of common effort toward a more open repository by both projects?
I thank the OCC dev team in advance for any comments.
Yoh
Forum supervisor
2009/12/15 11:00
Hello Pierre,
SALOME SVN database will only provide SALOME source code. The Open CASCADE Technology source will not be provided by this SVN.
