Hi Peter,
why not make a pull request, it makes it so much easier to review changes
:-)

Cheers
Andrea

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 7:28 PM Peter Rushforth <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
> I sent an individual CLA to [email protected] on May 5th, mentioning
> GeoServer project. If you like I can send it to you, too.
>
> I ran the tests and fixed one that broke because of link order changes
> (locally, anyway).
>
> I have fixed the issues you mentioned, specifically the line ending
> problem in the html file and the decoding of utf-8 "=" characters in
> .properties files (the latter was a bug in NetBeans).
>
> Also, I added a comparable order property to the preview format links, and
> sort on that value after retrieving the beans.
>
> I created a new feature branch because git was misbehaving on squashes,
> and once you are satisfied I will squash it into master for a pull request.
>
> Here's the new feature branch comparison with master:
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/compare/master...prushforth:preview-format-extension2
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:39 AM Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 4:10 AM Peter Rushforth <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Peter Rushforth <[email protected]>
>>> 9:58 PM (7 minutes ago)
>>> to geoserver-devel
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm new to this list, so first step is to introduce myself.
>>>
>>> My name is Peter and I am a geospatial developer with a strong interest
>>> in mapping standards.  I've been working on a format that we call Map
>>> Markup Language for a while, and my organization sponsored development of
>>> the MapML Community Module.
>>>
>>> I would like to continue development of that module.  In that regard, I
>>> have been consulting with Chris Hodgson about developing an extension point
>>> to GeoServer that would allow people who choose to install the MapML
>>> Community Module to have easy access to links to map previews.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Peter, welcomed.
>> In order to contribute you have to sign and send the OSGeo CLA, as per
>> out contribution guidelines:
>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>> I don't see a CLA on file. You might already have done so, sometimes it
>> takes a while before the CLAs should up on archive. Let us know.
>>
>>
>>> What we want to propose is to allow extension of the "Common Formats"
>>> field to allow a module like our own to add to the list of links to common
>>> formats.
>>>
>>> The idea is to enable extension via beans in the spring application
>>> context of the extension to be found by the preview page and placed in that
>>> list.  The default set of links (that is, the links that are already there)
>>> would not change.
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>
>> The list was meant to be a set of formats that most users care for (the
>> most important ones), it's now outdated, KML should probably be removed and
>> replaced by GeoJSON.
>> I don't mind having it extensible. Hopefully the extension point is not
>> going to get used much, if we end up with 20 formats in the common list,
>> well, they are not common anymore, they become "most of the formats" :-D
>>
>>>
>>> I have got a feature branch that contains the required / proposed
>>> changes, if you would have a look and let me know what you think and what's
>>> the next step for us, that would be awesome.  Hopefully we have gone about
>>> this the right way, please let me know.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/prushforth/geoserver/tree/preview-format-extension
>>> (there're a few too many commits in that branch, I tried to squash them
>>> but they refused. When it comes to a pull request I can squash them there,
>>> I believe).
>>>
>>
>> Ability to squash depends on merges, if you do merges in between your
>> commit I don't think you can squash them anymore. Otherwise it should be
>> fine.
>>
>> Had a quick look on one of the commits (until you do a PR it's hard to
>> see the full set of changes) and added a few comments.
>>
>> One thing that I'm missing (and maybe I've just overlooked it) is a way
>> to sort the formats into a stable order. If it's missing, then the
>> formats would show up in different order depending on the installation
>> details, JVM used and so on. Chaos on one of the most used pages.
>> That needs to be handled :-D
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
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