The remainder of the meeting was interesting; but I am not sure if you caught it - everyone was exactly right.
From the standpoint of Refractions we often wish GeoTools was more self sustaining; none of the other open source projects we work with have such an overhead for us. Now in each case there is usually a dedicated project leader; and nothing like IRC meetings (usually an email thread is enough to formally work out most problems). And the vast body of code is stable and non changing ... Where do I see this heading for us? Well the system we have set up with module maintainers (and modules for that matter) is very suited to an RnD project; witness the array of active RnD modules going on even now :-) As code becomes stable (and fall into maintenance mode) we need to treat things more like a library (and less like a project). We can see this in many areas already; the GeoServer developers (and in a smaller way the uDig developers) have been maintaining the library. Right now we have a fair bit of friction from all sides - let me sum up. - Thanks to the GeoServer crew for taking on maintenance for so many years (I was sad uDig could not keep up) - Everyone has at different times pushed the RnD envelope; the amount of technical debt we are carrying is making it not cost effective for Geomatys to take on more RnD. - It is hard to raise money / time for maintenance work - we need to recognize this and plan accordingly - PMC responsibility is planning ... not maintenance and bug fixes. Martin proposed one way forward today; I will review and comment when I am a bit more awake. Personally I am not going to make any decisions about this until our graduation requirements are met. Cheers, Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
