Hello Andrea
Putting "geotidy" under a GeoTools umbrella (either as a separated Maven
project
or merged to SVN) is an offering that we make to the community, but as far as
we
(at geomatys) are concerned we have no obligation to do so. This offer has been
made repeatedly since the begining. If the PSC don't want it, we are completly
fine with that.
Creating geotidy on a separated repository may have been a source of critisism,
but sincerly it would have been impossible for me to do otherwise. GeoTools SVN
has many thousands of javac and javadoc warnings. I can't fix everyone warnings
and I want to work on the warnings in the modules that I maintain without being
bured under everyone warnings. Furthermore geotidy has been a public repository
since its begining.
You said that I'm aiming to be a "dictator". However every modules in Geotidy,
including Coverage, are mine. More important, I'm the benevolent dictator on my
Mercurial clone of geotidy. Anyone can be the dictator of their own clone of
the
repository, can commit whatever changes he wants on his clone and can share his
changes with who he wants. Simone or anyone else can not be prevented by myself
from commiting, and nothing can prevent Geoserver from using Simone's work. The
usage of a Distributed Versionning System is at the heart of this Geotidy move,
you really need to understand its principle.
About the "Threaded EPSG" story: Try to imagine the opposite scenario. Imagine
that a big compagny (said ESRI - I'm just inventing) paids Geomatys for doing
major work on the JTS library. Geomatys had never touched JTS code before.
Geomatys sign the contract then said to Martin Davis (the JTS author and
maintainer) "Hey! we are going to change big parts of JTS. You are not going to
work with us (unless for free); please let just agree on the plan and let us do
the code". Geomatys duplicates lot of code, then leaves the library in a messy
state and wait for Martin Davis to clean this code for free. A few JTS releases
are made in that state before Martin Davis finally have a chance to work 3
weeks
- for free - cleaning Geomatys work, fixing bugs and logical inconsistencies.
Then someone complains that it tooks years before he did this job, suggesting
that it is all Martin's fault.
This kind of story is part of the reasons why we created geotidy.
Martin
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