On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]> wrote:
> I fully agree with you, but the point I am trying to make is that the number
> of users a feature does have has to factor in to how we deprecate / remove
> it.
I'm not going to argue there, KML is important, other servers are
picking it up too,
it would be bad to drop it.
That said, a lot of other things are important, and the number of
developers is what
it is.
In fact I'm not even arguing to move it away, just asking where the willing
maintainers for it are.
If Gabriel or anyone else is interested in keeping KML up then it can stay were
it is.
> Think back to validating wfs... it basically had zero users so when we made
> the decision to pull it from core we did so without really any warning. And
> nobody complained. But for KML, a feature that does have users, we at least
> have to deprecate support before we remove. But it sounds like that is not
> the conversation here despite Jody's over dramatic initial subject line.
Jody is trying to scare up someone saying "stop it, I am the one maintaining it"
The current situation leaves us, imho, four choices:
a) we dont' apply the patch and stall the MapContent/Layer adoption.
I guess it's in the powers of the PSC to say that the risk/work is not worth
its while (though of course that will have repercussions).
Mind I'm not backing the MapContent/Layer patch in a strong way, I actually
made it just to avoid stalling Jody/Michael, which are helping out
in geotools
land mostly in their spare time (which makes, to me, the
contribution all the
more important).
b) we apply the patch and say that it's ok if get KML somewhat broken bones
out of it. Someone other than Andrea will care for it when the time comes
c) someone pops up and says he's interested in gettig KML to full capacity
again after the patch is applied
d) we move kml out to extension like Gabriel proposes, recognizing kml code
quality is going down without anyone stopping it.
Mind one thing, while core status means PSC maintains it, extension status
means there is an appointed person maintaining it. This may be Gabriel again,
but I don't want to read too much in his mail
When I first posted the thread about the patch (not this one) I was
hoping someone
will pop up and go for c).
So far the only actual proposition we have is for d) (which is still
good, better than
no proposition at all).
Maybe things will change, if any business interest in KML pops back up
I'll be happy
to help. As I said, I'm just not available to do KML work Saturday and
Sunday, if it's
work time it's welcomed.
Cheers
Andrea
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