Thanks for your words of support, if you check the latest meeting notes I hope to make a blog post on this topic for January.
Sorry if my words were a bit harsh. I am still seeking a good balance with respect to funding. While we need to be sustainable - it is best addressed with people than funds. -- Jody Garnett On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 5:00 PM Mike Bundock <m...@augview.net> wrote: > hi Jody. Apologies if my comment came across as criticism. Certainly not > intended. I think we all agree that geoserver is fantastic and that the > team have done an amazing job of maintaining & upgrading its capabilities. > It is sad to hear that so little was raised last year. Maybe that fact > alone should be publicized and used to generate more revenue. If each > organisation using geoserver donated just $20 it would soon add up to a > significant sum. > I will revisit how to make a contribution and contact other organisations > that I know are using Geoserver to do the same. > regards > mike > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, 1:49 pm Jody Garnett, <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Mike, >> >> For a large portion of GeoServer's lifetime we had participation from >> companies backed by investors and venture capital. >> >> That is no longer the case. >> >> GeoServer asked for sponsorship last year and recieved $1000 USD from our >> community. And half of that was me personally providing an example so I >> could take screen snaps of what steps are needed. >> >> A plugin that does not receive update when we migrate from a one version >> of the spring-framework to another .. does not compile and cannot be >> included in the release. >> >> Your point about popularity is well taken - number of downloads should >> indicate that a developer is one of the users of a plugin. Or that folks >> using the plugin will be in place to support development. Folks using a >> plugin can also help test (and thus reduce ongoing maintenance effort). >> >> GeoServer has actually done an amazing job of keeping maintenance costs >> low. The project has very good QA checks and test coverage allowing us to >> keep a release cadence of one release a month. >> >> Maintenance costs for applications in 2023 are presently increasing. With >> increased expectations for prompt security patches and so on. Functionality >> such as SAML that is not along for the ride falls away. >> -- >> Jody Garnett >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 1:19 PM Mike Bundock <m...@augview.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> surely there must be a better reason for dropping the plugin, other than >>> it did not get updated for a while. Did it actually need an update? If >>> plugin download numbers are logged and no-one had actually been using it >>> then I would understand. >>> regards >>> Mike >>> >>> *Mike Bundock* | CEO >>> >>> Augview | P O Box 125046, St Heliers, Auckland 1740, New Zealand >>> >>> p: +64 9 575 5298 | m: +64 27 575 5298 | e: >>> mailto:mike.bund...@augview.net <mike.bund...@augview.net>| w: >>> www.augview.net >>> >>> >>> >>> Winner of Innovation & Commercialisation and Supreme Awards at 2014 NZ >>> Spatial Excellence Awards >>> >>> Winner of Innovation & Commercialisation Award at 2014 Asia Pacific >>> Spatial Excellence Awards >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 at 08:08, Alexandre Gacon <alexandre.ga...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> The saml plugin is a community plugin so it relies only on the good >>>> willingness of the community and not on the maintainers of GeoServer. It >>>> didn't receive update for a long time: that's why it has been archived for >>>> now. >>>> >>>> If you are ready to step in as a maintainer, it is possible to restore >>>> it. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Alexandre >>>> >>>> Le mer. 20 déc. 2023 à 19:34, Parmentier, Mary < >>>> mary.parment...@softtechconsulting.com> a écrit : >>>> >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We are trying to implement MFA by using OKTA to authenticate users. We >>>>> started to explore the SAML plug-in for this but it is not included in the >>>>> 2.24 release. We are hesitant to use the SAML plug-in if it will stop >>>>> working with future upgrades. Has anyone successfully integrated >>>>> Geoserver >>>>> with Okta? I would love to hear how you did it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Mitzi Parmentier >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Geoserver-users mailing list >>>>> >>>>> Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting >>>>> to this list: >>>>> - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: >>>>> http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ >>>>> - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: >>>>> http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html >>>>> >>>>> If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: >>>>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Geoserver-users mailing list >>>> >>>> Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to >>>> this list: >>>> - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: >>>> http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ >>>> - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: >>>> http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html >>>> >>>> If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: >>>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer >>>> >>>> >>>> Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geoserver-users mailing list >>> >>> Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to >>> this list: >>> - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: >>> http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ >>> - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: >>> http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html >>> >>> If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: >>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer >>> >>> >>> Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >>> >>
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