Ciao all, just dumping a few thoughts about the subject after having discussed a bit with all the involved parties.
I seem to understand that the goals for GeoTidy are (correct me if I am wrong): - clean up metadata, referencing and possible all the rest - use java 6 This implies that the metadata and referencing module are no longer maintained besides: - minor bug fixes which are easy to apply - changes which keep referencing aligned with Geoapi It also occurred to me that "GeoTidy" in the end should propose itself as "GeoTools 3". Assuming that this picture of the situation is correct, my thoughts are as follows: - I fully agree with the clean up goal - I do not fully agree with the Java 6 goal, which is not yet the standard for the JEE environment However, at the moment, I see the following problems with this approach: - it is essentially a unilateral move with no community consensus - I do not see either a roadmap or a timeline or specific plan for this work, which IMHO should have been the agreed starting point (but, yeah, I do understand that anyone here has its own timings) - it is quite unclear what will happen with the modules that are curently maintained by the geotidy committers These problems lead me to the following considerations: - hoping this is not a move "against" the community, I think that it is going to be difficult to have someone else join the effort without plan/roadmap/timeline. We are asking for blind faith atm not for an effort :-) - on the same line as above, without plan/timeline/roadmap I see it very difficult for geotidy to become geotools 3, but rather it just seems a slow moving fork (of course I might be wrong) since it seems quite difficult to me to call it geotools 3 if noone else will join the effort (and withouth roadmap/plan/timeline who will join the effort?) My final consideration is that, the "geotidy" move could be a good occasion ot clean things up and, assuming that it's not just a "nice and gentle" way to fork, i would be willing to provide some efforts, but IMHO without a plan/timeline/roadmap I see this as very unlikely to happen. Ciao, Simone. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Eng. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Owner - Software Engineer Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://www.geo-solutions.it/simone.giannecchini http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
