A big +1 here. We are already spread pretty thin in GeoTools in terms of developer resources vs number of modules so sharing maintainence burden with another community outweighs any edge that the code that is sitting unmaintained at the moment might have.
And as Andrea states what they have is being used in production. I have heard "stories" of people using the modules in GeoTools in production, but only through the grapevine, i have never seen any proof of that. So I would much rather use something I know and can verify is being used rather than something that someones tells me is being used but can't verify it. Andrea Aime wrote: > Jody Garnett ha scritto: >> Andrea has done a good job setting up a collaboration opportunity for >> us with the deegree team. Looks like there is an IRC breakout meeting >> later today: >> - >> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=7&day=8&hour=9&min=30&sec=0&p1=215&p2=240&p3=179&p4=1091 >> >> >From my standpoint... >> - I want to see collaboration occur; especially on geometry which is a >> hard problem >> - I would like to see collaboration occur regardless >> - hopefully we can set this up on a java-collab svn; or (worst case) >> use a distributed version control system to pull changes around >> >> One thing I have gotten stuck on; and this is annoying me; is that I >> am unable to talk about the geometry solutions we have here without >> appearing to be against collaboration :-( > > Well, as far as I'm concerned the "solutions we have" seem to be > dead and buried, no work went on in these in a long time, and no > usage of them has been reported. > > DeeGree on the other side has used in production a similar geometry > model and is evolving it for DeeGree 3 to use it again in production, > and they will use it regardless of whether we participate or not, > meaning that library already has long term commitment backing it. > I also had the impression DeeGree people value pragmatism as opposed > to "implement every ISO spec under the Sun", something I have the > feeling is also the position of the current GeoTools PMC. > > As you said making a geom library is a lot of work, it makes sense > to team up and share the load. > Wasting this occasion would be a major setback for GeoTools in my opinion. > > Cheers > Andrea > -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
