FYI: I have been working on the refactoring of my original pull request
with a more generic approach following the outline of Andrea's approach,
I'll probably get it finished by the end of this week.
See https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/430#issuecomment-32161840
Regards,
Ilkka Rinne
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> GeoServer core developers... anyone with an opinion?
> At this point it's late and we're not going to make the feature freeze
> (which is a pity)
> but I don't want to let drop this one drop.
>
> And btw, even an opinion like "apply the patches as is, we'll fix the mess
> later" is not out of the table,
> I don't like it personally, but I hate to have people try to contribute
> and giving them the could shoulder
> more...
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:22 PM, ilkkarinne <ilkka.ri...@spatineo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm the author of the mentioned pull request 430, and I'm liking the
>>> generalisation of my original idea as proposed by Andrea. I dare not go
>>> deep
>>> into implementation details, because while being an happy user on
>>> Geoserver
>>> I have only limited experience for creating code for the project.
>>>
>>> What kind of implementation plan and timeline would you see for do for
>>> this
>>> kind of change in the Geoserver functionality? My client, the Finnish
>>> Meteorological Institute, is already waiting for this fix, and I'm
>>> likely to
>>> be able use some working time on this in yearly 2014 (Jan/Feb). They
>>> would
>>> like to see a backport also in the 2.4.x branch, and perhaps even 2.3.x
>>> branch if possible.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the interest. The timeframe is not clear, we need feedback from
>> the other core developers, and this might be a bit hard now that we're
>> in holidays.
>>
>> However... this is also the best time for me to help, Jan 7 I'll be back
>> working
>> full time and at that point I'll only be able to help during weekends....
>> so it would
>> really be great if other PSC (Project Steering Commitee)
>> members could chime in and comment on this topic soon, as I'd be happy to
>> help.
>>
>> A backport on the 2.4.x series is probably out of the question due to
>> project rules:
>> * a new feature has to be vetted by core devs before being added to the
>> development
>> series
>> * that feature has to stay one month on the dev series before being
>> backported on the stable
>> branch, after a positive vote from the PSC, that deems the feature
>> useful and not
>> potentially harmful to the stability of the stable branch
>> * the backport has to be done at least two weeks before the release
>> (which happens once
>> a month)
>>
>> Now, the 2.4.x series will only have two more releases, Jan 18 and Feb
>> 18, then it will
>> end and the 2.5.x series will be branched off the dev branch (so, it will
>> become the new
>> stable series, whilst the dev branch will welcome the work target for
>> 2.6.0, to be
>> released in Sept 2014).
>>
>> However... I don't see the above as a big problem, you're free to apply
>> the patch to your fork of the
>> project and have FMI use them (same goes for the 2.3.x series, which has
>> been
>> dead for 4 months now).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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