> Fellow GeoTools developers, > > We have been working together for many years now, all compromising along the > way in order to keep working as a group. Over this past year or more, our > collaboration has been increasingly strained which has been a drag for > everyone. While we share the vision of building a geospatial library, we > differ greatly in our visions of what it takes to make a great library, in > our priorities and constraints, and in our ways of working. Thanks to all of > you who, like us, tried repeatedly this past year to find a way to work > together: it was worth the effort to see if our differences could be > resolved. > > Unfortunately, we have reached an impasse. Some of us believe that a library > offered for general use should be of consistently high quality, be coherent > within itself, be correct with regards to the base contracts of the > language, and should exist on its own merits.
We share this aim; we differ of accountability Vincent. While I was happy that Martin is finally making progress; I am sad that this was not reachable while working with community members such as myself. As I understand Martin's offer to roll back changes was not rejected; it was not offered in the form we could approve it (a change proposal). I have been patient in waiting for a proposal; the GeoTools project publishes its project management procedures and I did not wish to waste my time on email discussion until something solid was placed on the table. We may consider depending on geotidy for the referencing module; at which point we will still need a proposal (or description) of how to produce a Java 5 backport of these modules. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
