[Orekit Developers] Releasing 9.1?

[MAISONOBE Luc <luc.maisonobe@c-s.fr>]

Hi all,

I would like to release Orekit 9.1 before the Orekit day.
There have been a number of fixes and new features that
would be interesting to put public.

The new things already present are mainly related to
precise orbit determination. Displacement of ground
points (read ground stations) due to direct tide
effect and indirect ocean loading effect are now
available. A simpler way to retrieve covariance
matrix is available (but it probably need some works
as it still includes weights multipliers).

Another thing we could add is merging the work done
by two SOCIS students, one in 2015 and one this
summer. They worked on a way to add inertial forces
and hence to be able to propagate trajectories (which
in this case would not be orbits) in non-inertial frames,
and to add a way to propagate trajectories around
Lagrange points. A side effect is that new frames
for L1 and L2 points are also available, where users
select the primary and secondary body at will.

If possible, I may also add new things related to
GNSS (RINEX and ANTEX files parsing for example).

I will ask in the Hipparchus developers list if we
can also release Hipparchus 1.2, as it brings a few
bug fixes that are interesting for us (for example in
the ellipsoid tesselation)

Here are the current open issues (apart from the very
old ones that correspond to features with very low priority):

 351 for partial derivative in non-Cartesian elements,
 358 about tolerances reset when orbit type change
 359 about central attraction estimation
 361 about ITRF2008 and CCSDS
 362 about propagator converter step size

I think 351 would be nive to solve.
I think 358 should be rejected as it is both a very
  specific use case and would require major changes
  in both Orekit and Hipparchus
I think 359 may be solved, but we need to merge the
  SOCIS students work before as it is related to this
I think 361 and 362 should be solved and are probably simple


Do you have other ideas?

Do you agree with releasing soon?

best regards,
Luc