Hey Jody, No time right now to answer fully. The IRC was to start a discussion and search for a good solution. Nothing in my proposal has any impact on existing code so there is no cause for alarm and no reason for disappointment.
--adrian, under the departure gun On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 06:36 +0300, Jody Garnett wrote: > Hi Adrian; > > I found your news in yesterday's meeting to be disappointing. > > I had let you take over stewardship of the geometry module as you had > some work and interest in the area; as such you moved it to an > unsupported module (to warn users you may change the api) and now are > abandoning the work? > > This seems a fairly caviller attitude to what is now a couple person > years of work; for how many changes in geoapi are you making this trade? > I will talk to Graham when I return to Canada and see if this is a good > direction for that code base. > > Since we both work for a consulting company - and take short term > direction from clients - we do not always have the direction and > planning perspective to see the way ahead. > > This is in conflict with my roll on the PMC - where we track a course > for the library and ensure that time and effort of contributors is > respected, this is a requirement for GeoTools to be a safe project to > contribute effort into. I trust that each module maintainer feels a > similar responsibility; and excitement; in working with others. > > This places me, personally, in a double bind; I need to respect your > volunteer time in looking at (and revising) this work. As such I should > do everything in my power to help you. I also need to respect those who > originally did this work; and make sure it is not being disregarded > without cause. > > This perhaps is a better conversation to have on the GeoAPI list as I > understand the motivation to change is occurring there? > Jody > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
