Hi list, I am sending this email to inform/warn you about the GeoTools gridcoverages backport to 2.3.x that I am going to perform.
<<Background>> I am constantly working on what I call stable development of the GridCoverage modules and plugins of GeoTools, mainly for supporting GeoServer raster branch. Definition of stable is no API shift, solely bug fixes, minor enhancements and new plugins respecting the old interfaces. <<The Issue>> We need to have the raster GeoServer to profit the stable development I am doing on GeoTools as well as all the other bug fixes from other modules. It is imperative for me and Alessio to be able to deploy our version of GeoServer with a short notice without too many concerns, hence we have to assume that, while we do stable development on gridcoverages, the remaining part of geotools does not change too much. <<The deal>> The agreement we found with the two communities involved, GeoTools/GeoServer, is as follows: -Keep on doing stable development on 2.3.x -Backport the (few) changes made on 2.4.x to 2.3.x trying to not cause problems to other people. -Do RnD on 2.4.x. <<Conclusion>> Following Jody's suggestion (thanks man for all your help), I have already moved things that were under spike on 2.4.x to ext/coverage_development of 2.3.x. They are out of the build hence they will not affect anybody. I will keep on doing my plugins and tools development under this directory, out of the build and of the release in order to not bother anyone else. When things will be ready I will ask the permission to move them under the appropriate dir and I will add them to the build. However, there is one thing missing, before we can do a new release of geoserver raster and start working on 2.3.x. I need to backport the changes I have made on the coverage plugins, and the coverages packages (which are very few). This might cause some glitches (I am sure they won't but I prefer to be pessimistic and then say everything was fine than the opposite) hence I would like to see people (Adrian?) exposing their concerns. Be aware that GeoTools 2.3.x is going soon to be the base for next generations of uDig and GeoServer hence all the work I am doing will be soon exploited by them (hopefully :-) ). Thanks you all, Simone. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Simone Giannecchini President /CEO GeoSolutions http://www.geo-solutions.it ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
