Hi everyone, Talking with Aaron, it seems like there were two paths forward for refactoring in order to create a release. To refresh everyone's memory, the issue was that the geo-indexing extensions to Rya pull in geotools, which prohibits us from releasing Rya under an Apache 2 license. There may be some more particulars that I'm glossing over -- someone please chime in if they feel it is key to the discussion. The two paths forward we had were: 1. Make all of the indexing project and its downstream dependencies optional and exclude them from a release -- The indexing project includes several "optional" extensions to Rya (advanced indexing strategies). Prior to Rya becoming an apache project, these indexing extensions were optional and there was a separate profile for including them. This option involves reverting back to that mindset. The main argument against this is that these indexing strategies/extensions are not in fact optional but are "core" to Rya and can't be excluded.
2. Refactor Rya to pull geoindexing into a separate project and exclude that project from the release. - We could refactor Rya to have geoindexing be its own project and add a profile to include that in the build. This would invovle moving the class mvm.rya.indexing.GeoIndexer and packages mem.rya.indexing.accumulo.geo and mvm.rya.indexing.mongodb.geo to a separate project and then removing/moving references to geoindexing anywhere else. Another option is to refactor the GeoIndexer interface to remove the geotools dependency. I think #1 is a good immediate path for a release and that #2 is a good longer term path forward. Since it's probably in our best interests as a community to get an apache release sooner rather than later, I'd rather us go with #1 since it would quicker. I also think that most users of Rya would be ok with excluding the indexing project since it is not core functionality for Rya. While #2 is a better long term plan, it involves some pretty extensive refactoring that would be difficult to do well in a timely manner. Any thoughts?
