Jody Garnett wrote: > What bothers me more is how changes to geoapi have been handled > recently. In some cases ( like Ben's proposed changes ) it seems a > formal proposal is needed. > > > I missed this conversation about Ben's proposed changes; what are they? > I was not signed up to the mailing list for a bit - in general Ben has > my full support since he is deep in the depths of implementation now and > I want to know what is holding him up as soon as possible. Maybe I mis-understood, but it sounded like Ben wanted some changes in the feature model to deal with complex types with simple content. If i mis understood my apologies. > > Ben are you available for comment? What is up here? > > > However in the case of recent style changes it seems breaking api is > ok. It seems ambiguous to me. > > > You are correct that something was amiss; Johnathan was good about > talking with me about the addition of an ExtensionSymbolizer and we > rolled out the patch in good order; he missed adding the method to > StyleFactory which I found during my review (I believe I rolled out this > patch correctly yesterday). Johanathan then went and changed some of the > methods to take a String rather than an Expression as a parfameter - and > I am unclear on if this was deployed; or automatically deployed > resulting in the current breakage. > > I have talked to him; and the geoapi list; and do not plan to see an api > change without talking it over first (hense the email thread with andrea > on this subject). Andrea proposed some style changes which got negative feedback because they weren't "standard". This seems to indicate that unless you are working in geoapi your work has a tough time being accepted. Which extremely worries me. > > Jody
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