Am 04.09.11 08:05, schrieb Durk Talsma: > Hi All, > > In the past, we've seen a large number of projects that were initiated for > FlightGear; Atlas, fgrun, the terragear toolchain, and taxidraw. Many of > these program have undergone substantial development, many contributors have > come and gone, and in a number of cases, the project management has changed > hands from one person to another. > > While this is really great, I also cannot escape the impression that some of > these programs either don't really live up to their full potential, or at the > verge of constant abandonment, due to limited developer access. Note that > for the latter, I have one specific case in mind, which is taxidraw. > TaxiDraw's most active developer, Ralf Gerlich recently resigned, and I've > been wondering how to proceed. The official taxidraw repository is hosted at > sourceforge and cvs based. Looking at the TaxiDraw project page, I could only > identify David Luff as the project admin. I've been trying to get in touch > with Dave to discuss taxidraw's future, but unsuccessfully thus far. > > I think that taxidraw is an essential piece of software and I think that > FlightGear could benefit tremendously, if it were only more easily > accessible. For this reason, I think that it would be a good idea if we > started bundling it's latest version along with the official release and > incorporate it into the automatic snapshot builds. Additionally, we need to > ensure future developers access. I hope that David Luff will respond, so that > we can work out a plan for improve future consistency of it's development > cycle. If not, I might consider moving the taxidraw source over to gitorious > and incorporate it as a subproject of fg. > > Any thoughts / ideas would be welcome. > > Cheers, > Durk >
Hi Durk Personally I don’t know if there is a roadmap for taxidraw anymore. You can edit airport data with tools like Qgis directly and with much more comfort. It’s sad, but I think we dont need it anymore. Cheers, Yves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
