[Geotools-devel] Summary for IRC Meeting 19 June 2006

[Oliver Loe]

Hi All   I just read the IRC meeting on the 19 June 2006, and made a summary for all of those who missed it J   1)       Jalopy (before merge)   ·                      Merging branches is a mess because of different formattings. ·                      Start using Jalopy as part of the build. ·                      Need to update Jalopy settings to the correct header. ·                      Possibly format all current branches with the main pom.xmls all having the same plug-in formatter and config. ·                      At least run Jalopy on coverage and rendering to help the GC branch merge in. ·                      Autoformat on commit is the ideal solution, but not right now.   2)           Doc Ownership   ·                      2 issues:                                                           i.                          Who has the copyright?                                                       ii.                          What is the license?   ·                      Easy strategy for copyright would be to have the authors jointly hold the copyright, making the license impossible to change later on. ·                      Consensus seems to be that OsGeo hold the copyright, thus authors need to explicitly assign copyright to OsGeo. ·                      The PMC requires an official request from OsGeo for:                                                           i.                          their acceptance of the copyright, ideally with some commitment to keeping it 'free' and                                                       ii.                          some mechanism for us to assign our rights to them.   ·                      Timeframe required so that no more time is spent thinking about it.   ·                      Q: how can the PMC officially ask OSGeo to receive copyright for our docs?             A: write a letter indicating that the copyright is being assigned to OSGeo.   ·                      Q: Who is Rich Steele?             A: Rich Steele is the OSGeo lawyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).   ·                      Acuster will write a letter to the lawyer asking how to proceed and hopefully get a letter of assignment. Once this is done, formal voting from the PMC to accept the process can take place on the mailing list.   3)           GC Rocks out!   ·                      Q: what still needs to be done before starting the merge of gc onto trunk?             A: there are basically NO new things to do, just some more testing and bug fixing as we are doing   ·                      Coverage branch includes grib support. ·                      Grib support not ready to be released, not officially    . ·                      Plans to try out the branch in uDig. ·                      Having things on trunk will greatly speed up bug hunting   ·                      Q: What happens if we just do two svn move to swap the branch and the trunk on the server?             A: ·                             [simboss] we could do this ·                             [simboss] we first synch the branch ·                             [simboss] we send out some emails to warn committers ·                             [simboss] we swap ·                             [simboss] and we test things for a couple of days ·                             [jgarnett] horrible ·                             [jgarnett] What you are replacing is *very* broken... ·                             [jgarnett] Either way GC is merging to trunk   Thanks Oliver

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