During the Grid Coverage/Renderer improvements IRC today, we talked about merging the grid coverage branch onto trunk.
See: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2006/05/01/Renderer+IRC and the " Renderer improvements meeting part 2 (Grid Coverge Merge to Trunk)" message thread. I know almost nothing about the FM branch, and the last I heard was that it was going to be another 6 months before its done. Apparently, thats incorrect, and its going to be finished up next month (june) because there's a lot of OWS-4 work thats depending on it. Perhaps we can get a check-in from the folks who are working on FM, or who are current stalled (or will soon be stalled) waiting for it - at the very least get a list of the FM 'stakeholders'. The main problem is that a Grid Coverage merge could quite possibily "step on the toes" of the FM folks (see the IRC discussion linked above). Trying to do the Grid Coverage merge and FM merge at the same time is almost certainly going to cause problems, so it seems like we should either: a) merge current trunk (I believe the main changes are changes to expression - correct me if I'm wrong) with Grid Coverage Branch + Renderering Improvments - this would be a 2.3 release. 2.4 would then be 2.3 (ie. coverages) + FM. OR b) wait for the FM merge to occur (current trunk + FM = 2.3) then merge the Grid Coverage stuff in later (2.4 = trunk + FM + Grid). There's other options, but I thought I would just throw this out so that the FM folks could start talking. Whats the plan? (In terms of those working on it, and those "waiting" on it) Is doing a Grid merge going to cause problems? If so, what do we do? I dont think there's a pressing need "right now, today" to merge the grid stuff in (I could be wrong, though), but I know a lot of people have been waiting for it for a while. dave ps. Jody's kindly offered (free-as-in-beer-and-as-in-speech) FM walk-throughs all this week on IRC. pps. There is starting to be a fairly large divergence between 2.2.x and trunk. This is making it difficult to move 2.2.x patches to trunk - not all bug fixes are finding there way to trunk. This seems to indicate that we should kick out a 2.3 fairly soon. ppps. Justin has said that the FM branch is basically a re-write of the geotools core. It certainly makes sense to call the end result "geotools 3" to recognize this. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
