Jody Garnett a écrit :
> I am not content with your organizations lack of ability to work
> within the GeoTools project guidelines.
>
> The guidelines that shape how a community collaborates are as much a
> part of the GeoTools vision technically quality. You will find that we
> share the same vision for technical quality; we different on a vision
> of open development.
Those guidelines changed in the GeoTools history. The proposal process had
initially be created for the main module at a time it had no maintainer. Only
later the process has been extended to other modules. We can see this
historical
drift in the contradictions found in the developer guide. Vincent pointed those
contradictions with citations and links in his email.
While some consider the PMC governance as a success, I'm personally worried by
our failure to make GeoTools an atractive library for external projects like
Degrees, World Wind Java, gvSig and OpenJump. The only important open source
projects using GeoTools (as far as I know) are those which are themself
contributors to the GeoTools code base: GeoServer and uDig.
Some OpenSource projects like Linux, BSD and Gnumeric do not have the GeoTools
governance model. Andrea cited SubVersion as a counter-example. So our vision
of
open development differ, but it is not certain that one vision is invalid.
Martin
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