On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > This discussion is striking me badly as many of these represent our > technical direction; and I am not interested in killing them just because > they are not used by geoserver or uDig.
That's not the angle we're trying to hit here. We have customers, and potential ones, complaining that GeoTools is full of "junk" and they point at the unsupported modules. So it's a cleanup angle, has nothing to do with that is useful or not useful from the pov or GeoServer and uDig. The idea is not to remove all unsupported modules, but at least the ones that are really dead and in no shape for resuscitation. Simone compiled a list with some that should not be removed, I agree, but there are a few that are indeed just increasing the confusion such as mysql/oracle-spatial/db2 (becuse they have stable replacement). > I think a larger issue is that some of these modules have not attracted any > "replacement" module maintainer. Perhaps we are too mean to module > maintainers. > I am not particularly worried about checkout time; but build time is a > concern (we had the idea of breaking out "pending", etc..). Most of these module are outside of the build, not a build time issue. A clean-ness one. > Let me suggest a more radical move; as I am also tired of being asked > questions about DBF (twice this year) or geometry (three times this year) > without any funded interest. Especially dangerous when people see code and > decide they will wait for it to be ready... > So let me suggest a more radical move: > - kick unsupported into a separate branch (we already don't make it as part > of our download; lets not make it as part of our maven build either), and we > can supply instructions on how to build the code. This would at least > encourage volunteers to say "i will work on that" at which point it could be > moved into ... > - "pending" for the modules that actually have a plan to move to supported > status We already have the separate branch for all of those modules, it's the past ones. If you create a parallel branch who's going to keep it up to date? Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
