Glad you want to help Roy, I can provide you some of the guidance you need to get started.
First a clarification: The wfs module is divided in classes that support wfs 1.0 and 1.1. The 1.0 code path is the one that's unsupported, because no one that I know is able to really maintain it, nor de old xml technology in geotools it is based on. I started the wfs 1.1 support and had this great idea of porting the 1.0 support to this new technology and module architecture, but failed due to lack of time. By then, I moved the wfs module to unsupported to be fair with its situation, and hoped to move it back to supported once I could port 1.0 to the 1.1 architecture. So at this point I understand the module could look overlay complex. May be we could start a cleaner one in unsupported, moving only the stuff that works from the current one, and make it a place where to do some good engineering without being distracted by all the really unsupported stuff? I would certainly be more motivated to do that, not having to port 1.0 but focus on 1.1 and the near to come 2.0 instead. Does that sound like a better idea for you too? Cheers, Gabriel On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 08:39 -0600, Justin Deoliveira wrote: > That is great news Roy. It is always nice when someone steps up and > takes on an unsupported module. > > > I believe the official maintainer of the module is Gabriel. So he may > want to weigh in. But usually it goes that someone contributes a few > patches to a module, and once they have the trust of the existing > maintainer they get commit rights in that module. An unsupported > module I guess is a bit different since it does not by definition have > an active maintainer. > > > As for getting a module back to supported the criteria is more or less > laid out here: > > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/Supporting+your+module > > > But essentially it just needs some users, a minimum amount of test > coverage and some documentation. > > > -Justin > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Roy Braam <[email protected]> > wrote: > List, > > the thread 'How to create BBOX Filter with FilterFactory2' > triggered me. I want to get the WFS module back to supported > and TRY to support WFS 1.1.0. But i don't know where to > start.... > What's the status now? > What needs to be done? > Is there already somebody working on it? > Can we form up some group of people to get this done? > > Roy > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North > America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in > U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly > $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to > Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > > > > > -- > Justin Deoliveira > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Enterprise support for open source geospatial. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel -- Gabriel Roldan [email protected] Expert service straight from the developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
