Hi Jody,

Sorry for the late reply, just back from vacation :).

This all sounds reasonable. You are indeed correct that the proposal is 
not complete yet. I still have yet to get around to amending it with 
your original feedback. I will be sure to include this in it as well.

I will hopefully have it finished this week.

-Justin

Jody Garnett wrote:
> Hi Justin; the WPS team went to try and use this proposal but it is not 
> ready yet :-(
> 
> We tried talking about it in todays IRC meeting and got stalled out on 
> the issue of having a maintainer.
> 
> The balance here is one of resources:
> - on one side donating code to GeoServer cannot be a sentence to provide 
> a staff member on call forever
> - on the other side donating code to GeoServer does not mean the 
> community will maintain the code for free
> 
> Andrea and I eventually worked out the compromise of either having a 
> maintainer; or letting the PSC act like one (including kicking the 
> module back to community status if needed). We both want to learn from 
> the GeoTools experience of shapefile patches piling up in Jira.
> 
> It sounds like it too late for this procedure to be followed by the WPS 
> team for this phase of the project. It would be very good if this 
> procedure could be worked out prior to negotiating for continued work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jody
> 
> Jody Garnett wrote:
>> See earlier review of all the GSIP's there is some overlap between these 
>> two:
>> - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GSIP+17+-+Community+module+handling
>> - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GSIP+22+-+Extensions
>>
>> Can this be resolved; or combined into a single policy change separating 
>> out the difference between how these are handled?
>> The GSIP+22 will need to change or define project build procedure; we 
>> should figure out what documentation pages
>> need to be updated?
>> - Can we have a procedure for "removing an extension"
>> - Since these are a lot more formal than community modules; can we get a 
>> wiki page with docs? Or even a formal installation/useage doc?
>>
>> I am correct in thinking these are full fledged running modules (like 
>> WPS?) that are ready to go - they are just not in the default GeoServer 
>> download. As such I would like to hold them to the same high standard.
>>
>> Jody
>>   
> 
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