Thanks to everyone for their kind words.
In specific answer to some of Frank's questions:
* Yes, feel free to forward on this announcement through whatever
channels you wish.
* Yes, we should:
1. Through the incubation committee set up a process for retiring projects.
2. Hide mapbuilder references from all the key public facing web pages.
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
End of life for Community Mapbuilder
We, the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, have agreed that the
time has come for the Community Mapbuilder
<http://communitymapbuilder.org/> project to gracefully retire. We
will release a final, stable 1.5 version of the software, and
afterwards there are no planned enhancements to Mapbuilder. The web
pages and code will be kept alive, a few bugs might be fixed and we
will likely continue answering user queries, but we expect Mapbuilder
will gradually fade away into history.
Cameron,
I think this is an excellent and professional approach - given a clear
heads
up to the community on the status of things. In fact, I've been just
thrilled
by the degree of cooperation achieved between several of the web
mapping client
side projects in recent years. The experience and efforts focused on
improvement and exploitation of OpenLayers by those involved in
Mapbuilder,
ka-map and other projects has helped turn OpenLayers into what I would
argue
is the "best of breed" role it plays now.
As far as OSGeo process, I agree that we (perhaps within the incubation
committee?) need to work out an end-of-life/retired status for projects.
There is no problem continuing to host project resources of course,
but at
some point we would want to release the project from "live status"
reporting
and governance requirements and to remove it from the front page so
not too
many new users are guided to it as a promoted project.
If there is no objection, I'll distribute the eol announcement via the
OSGeo announce mechanism.
Best regards,
--
Cameron Shorter
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