You are correct the weekly IRC meeting has lost its will to live. In 2003
when I joined the project was run by module of maintainers (each a mini
dictator for a section of code); and the weekly IRC meeting was the venue
when agreement and direction was taken.
With the introduction of our change process the major motivation for the
weekly IRC meetings has vanished (and attendance has dropped as a result).
With that in mind here is a change proposal:
- http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Retire+IRC+Meetings
Jody
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Simone Giannecchini <
simone.giannecch...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> Ciao Jody,
> thanks for the info and efforts, we have been missing you.
>
> You are talking about informal IRC meeting, what about the "formal" IRC
> meeting?
> Honestly, I am not 100% sure that a weekly IRC meeting is what we
> really need, I guess we need something similar to what GDAL does ( see
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GovernanceAndCommunity).
> What do you suggest to do? Propose a new time? Having more than one
> possible time? I am also interesting in hearing what the others think.
>
> Simone.
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It seems everyone enjoyed their break over the Christmas holiday season;
> I
> > find myself unable to attend the IRC meeting time slot.
> >
> > In the last month I have really enjoyed my time with the uDig community;
> we
> > have our first decent GeoTools 2.6 based release out (actually our first
> > decent release based on anything other than GeoTools 2.2.x).
> >
> > I would like to spend a similar amount of effort on GeoTools this month;
> and
> > the first step for me is going to be communication. I am going to hang
> out
> > online (informal chat - only needs to be a meeting if we get too many
> issues
> > to sort through without an agenda).
> >
> > There seems to be two times for me to meet people (outside of my work
> hours)
> > that will let me chat with developers in europe and then north america.
> >
> > 7pm for me; lets me talk to Europe at 9am
> > -
> >
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=2&day=2&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=179&p3=215&p4=240
> >
> > 7 am for me (same as the udig timeslot) lets me talk to North America
> (and
> > anyone in europe staying up late)
> > -
> >
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=2&day=2&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=179&p3=215&p4=240
> >
> > My first priority is to check in with Andrea about stripping out the old
> > Filter code; and see if we can make some progress on FilterCapabilities
> (to
> > build up a function list) and look at the Function API itself.
> >
> > I then have two interesting ideas (to me at least) for the rest of the
> > month:
> > - to go over the rendering data model and renderer (cleaning things up so
> I
> > can document it). This would be of great value to the community and
> > "complete" the user guide; however I am not sure how much enthusiasm the
> > community can must up for this work?
> > - go through the the library and work out the OSGi bundle information;
> and
> > if people are enthusiastic we can revisit the Factory SPI contract (and
> see
> > if we can seperate out plugin from interface a bit more cleanly -
> although
> > perhaps that is GeoTools 3 foundational work). This idea depends on
> hunting
> > down a Mr. Harald Wellmann who has down a lot of the background OSGi
> > research.
> >
> > I have a couple more "breakout" topics that we can visit on if I can
> round
> > up the relavent parties:
> > - I keep meaning to ask Adrian Custer how to set up bzr - I may tempt him
> > into a breakout IRC session / tutorial / installfest
> > - Frank Gasdorf seems to be a serious user on the MemoryFeatureCollection
> > front; it would be fun to construct and test a few solid implementations
> > based around his actual needs
> > - I would love to have a guided tour of the jdbc-ng work and discuss
> > migration stratagy
> > - Justin has proposed some facinating change proposals around cleaning up
> > the feature collection / feature source heirarchy (I did the bare minimum
> > before the 2.5.x branch; but some good ideas are still on the table)
> >
> > If it is okay with everyone I would like to do some hands on work this
> > month; as a community if informal IRC sessions are popular / productive.
> I
> > have some sensible ideas about how to transition to GeoTools 3 (based on
> the
> > python 3 migration plan).
> >
> > Jody Garnett
> >
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