Hello everybody My name is Milton Jonathan and, as I already told some people at the FOSS4G conference, I work in a Computer Graphics lab here in Rio de Janeiro, where we have decided to start working with the GeoTools library.
I have read the "Contributors" section at the Developer's Guide (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/1+Contributors) and I think that the "easy informal" contribution is the best way to start collaborating with you guys. So, let's go to a first practical example: we have found what we think is inconsistent behavior in module org.geotools.styling.StrokeImpl.java (gt-main.jar), which gave us problems when attempting to copy a Style using the DuplicatingStyleVisitor. The issue is that, when a parameter is undefined (null), most getter methods return the value given by Stroke.DEFAULT. However, that was not happening for methods getDashArray and getDashOffset, which respectively returned an empty array and null. So, we have made some corrections to that on our local repository, and we have just opened up a JIRA issue with the correcting patch (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2073). We've been working with geotools 2.5-RC1, so I assumed that the corrections should be made to the SVN branch 2.5.x. If this whole procedure is OK with you (and you find our corrections suitable) then I guess we could keep going on like this for the time being. We have some other small changes that we will probably be doing in the near future, so I hope this works as a first experiment in contributing to the project. Thanks for all, Milton -- Milton Jonathan Grupo GIS e Meio Ambiente Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Tel: +55-21-3527-2502 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
