Hello

I guess it's time to introduce myself (again). My name is Stefan Krüger and i 
am a Java-FOSSGIS-freelancer from Bonn, Germany. I am the lead developer of 
Geopublisher and the AtlasStyler SLD editor - both are Swing desktop 
applications that build heavily on Geotools.

http://www.ohloh.net/p/Geopublishing
http://en.geopublishing.org

We (that is Martin Schmitz (http://www.ohloh.net/p/schmitzm) and me) have been 
using Geotools 2.4 for the last two years in multiple projects and we have 
patched it a lot to get it all running the way we needed it. This week we 
finally found the time to catch up with 2.6-M2. ... and we have to redo many of 
the patches...;-)

I have been more active on the geotools mailing-lists in 2007, but sadly we 
had the feeling that none of the code we send to the ML ever made it into the 
trunc. But that was probably due to the fact, that we didn't send proper 
.patch files, nor JUnit tests. Now that we finally switched to 2.6-M2 - and 
after meeting Andrea Aime in Bolsena - i want to give it a second try: I want 
to become a GT comitter for bugfixes and tiny changes! Not next week, not next 
month, but it would be great if i could climb up the ladder this year. I know 
that I have to invest time and energy to gain that trust... and i am willing 
to. 

At the moment, when i do a local patch, i just copy the class into my project 
an do the changes there. But i realized that the patches i then generate will 
not fit cleanly into the GT svn. I guess as the very first step I have to set 
up 
Eclipse with GT-Trunc and get it to build. So I will work through the 
Developers Guide next week.

Last but not lest I want to say a BIG THANK YOU for this great libary. 
Developing with geotools is really like "standing on the shoulders of giants". 

Many geetings,
Steve

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