Key dates for 4.0 release plan

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All

I just wanted to give you a little update from our sprint held in Jakarta in the second half of October. We had a really productive time and it was really great to have the participation of Marco (wearing a WB/GFDRR hat) and Sachin (from SPC). We had many long and in depth architectural discussions about the new 4.0 architecture and addressed some of the edge cases in our plans such as how to deal with earthquakes and how to handle reporting. An updated architecture diagram is available here:

https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/blob/develop/docs/InaSAFE4.0ArchitectureDetailedArchitecture.pdf

We will be continuously updating this diagram as we work. During the sprint days we also had guest from various Indonesian partner agencies present and it was a good litmus test of our architecture to see if we could cater for the various use cases they presented. One thing that became clear is that we need a bit more time to get 4.0 release ready and so we have updated our release plan accordingly:

InaSAFE 4.0 alpha 1: 15 November 2016

InaSAFE 4.0 beta 2: 15 December 2016

InaSAFE 4.0 final   :  15 January 2017

We will share any updates to this plan here on the mailing list if needed. We are looking forward to the new release and the promise that it holds in terms of reduced code complexity (I know the diagram above looks a bit complex, but compared to maintaining 30 odd Impact Functions, it is very simple!) and the future ability for users to add new hazard and exposure types through simple editing of text files and ultimately through point an click GUI interfaces.

The Kartoza team is pushing hard for beta 1 release in just over a week - we will make packages available for those who want to have a play the lazy way but in a separate repository to the main stream release of InaSAFE. Please feel free to share your ideas and concerns here on the mailing list, or if you want to dig into technical details, join us on the gitter channel.

Best regards

Tim

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[Marco Bernasocchi]

Thanks Tim for all the good sessions and the detailed plan.

ciao

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