johann.sorel wrote:
> This is a major patch on styles. Since my deadline is passed by more 
> than 3weeks now, I won't make the necessary fixes after the commit, 
> I've maintain the patch for a month on my free time, I cant take more 
> on my time for this.
Hi Johann - I am trying to set up the GeoTools project so this scenario 
does not continue to play itself out. If you review the technical debt 
page (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Technical+Debt) you will 
see that the majority of these issues were created in just this fashion. 
We need to be careful that GeoTools a dumping ground for patches 
expecting to be applied for free. You can see our list of Jira issues 
that contain patches - that will never be applied due to lack of funding 
as an example of this.

When you miss a deadline and have no money left to work on the problem 
it is a case of poor planning and communication. I expect you to work on 
this; and I expect the GeoTools community to also work on this. You will 
be getting a lot of feeback on the changes you have made based on a 
couple of real world applications - who is going to be accounting for 
this effort?

Personally I will be working on this to help clean up the style 
interfaces / factory / visitor contact prior to a new batch of uDig 
programmers being exposed to this area of GeoTools. Your organization 
probably has similar motivations.

In terms of planning you should ask for some time to apply this patch 
and address the problems that occur. The fact that this is happening now 
(rather than three weeks ago) does not change the amount of work you 
would need to do.

Jody

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