+1 here, It meets all the extension criteria so nothing should stop it imo.

2c.

-Justin

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
> this mail is about pushing WPS to extension status. The situation is
> imho good enough
> for such a move:
> - the module has a maintainer (me)
> - the code coverage as reported by cobertura is at 46%. It is actually
> quite uneven, some
>  parts are well tested, others not at all (more about this later)
> - there is evidence of community interest in the module, as seen on
> twitter, blogs,
>  mailing list and in person at FOSS4G
>
> Long story short, I'd like to push the module into extensions. I guess
> this needs
> a small GSIP, but before doing it, I'd like to hear from the other
> developers.
> What do you think?
>
> Before moving the module up I'd actually like to split it into three parts:
> - wps core (service and built-in processes)
> - wps web ui
> - wps sextante integration
>
> I'd actually like to promote only the first two, core and web ui, to
> extensions.
> The Sextante integration in the current state is not good and probably
> needs
> a rewrite to make it good, and possibly another heavy refactor to make it
> actually useful (Sextante processes follow the push model, which is not
> very
> good for chaining, but it should be possible to make them pull by wrapping
> each
> process in a executor thread). Given the license change in Sextante (to
> BSD)
> most of the code of the integration could/should actually flow back
> into GeoTools.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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