Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
> Nice work Andrea, much appreciated since we know you are doing this in 
> your volunteer time. A couple of comments:
> 
> 8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.
> 
> It is probably worth mentioning all the companies which have 
> historically made significant contributions to GeoServer. The only one 
> not there that comes to mind is Refractions.

Sure, I'll fix it.

> 11. Origin of the project
> 
> As I know it, GeoServer came into existence because some folks from TOPP 
> (Vision for New York at the time?) wanted to do traffic modeling based 
> on open source software. To do this it became evident that more then 
> just maps were going to be needed. The data behind the map was going to 
> have to be made available.
> 
> Around the same time the OGC the released the WFS spec as an open 
> standard. The goals seems to line up and TOPP felt that an open source 
> implemntation of WFS would be something of value, and also promote 
> organizations to make their data readily available helping with the 
> traffic modeling problem.
> 
> Might not have it quite right but that is how I understand it. Chris 
> will undoubtedly correct me :)

Cool.

One thing that I was not sure about was the usage of the svn log to
report numbers of test classes and the like. On one side, it's a way
to give a concrete information about the testing, on the other side
it might be perceived as trying to look (too) good. Opinions?

Cheers
Andrea


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