Today the GeoExt PSC and representatives of terrestris and Mapgears agreed on making the following announcement:
Ext JS 4.x has been available for a while now, and GeoExt 1.x only works with Ext JS 3.x. With new attractive features in Ext JS 4.x (e.g. charting, harmonized API with Sencha Touch for mobile applications), users demand a GeoExt version that works with Ext JS 4.x. This sprint is about working on such a version. Let’s give it the working title “GeoExt 2.0”. Four organizations involved in the development of GeoExt have expressed interest in getting together for a code sprint to make GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x: Camptocamp and OpenGeo are two of the founding organizations of GeoExt, with core committers that maintain the project. terrestris has experience in implementing geo-related features on top of Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch. They also have developed gxm, a flavor of GeoExt that works on mobile devices, an effort that was reviewed by GeoExt core committers. Mapgears is a solution provider delivering applications based on GeoExt. They have contributed many features to GeoExt, and maintain several user extensions. The goal of the sprint is to release a preliminary version of GeoExt 2.0, which will immediately be available to the community and funding organizations, but may not yet have all the features from GeoExt 1.x. The Ext JS 4.x API is different from the one in previous versions, so a natural consequence of this is that GeoExt 2.0 can not be fully API compatible with GeoExt 1.x. terrestris, MapGears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo have come up with an estimated funding requirement of US$ 52,000, which covers the costs of up to 8 developers getting together for focused work on GeoExt 2.0 for 5 days. The budget includes travel costs, accommodation and food, and a share of the costs of the development hours (the rest of the development hours will be covered by the 4 organizations). Funding organizations may communicate their priorities for GeoExt 1.x features they want ported to 2.0. These priorities will be considered, but fulfillment cannot be guaranteed, due to dependencies on other features that require more work to be ported. A date for the sprint can be set as soon as the commitment from funding organizations sums up to the amount of US$ 52,000. We hope that the sprint can happen some time between now and April 2012. -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@geoext.org http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
