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 -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
