I'm +1 on this after hearing this too. Ian
On 12 May 2011 04:55, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>I was under the impression that your project is nearing end and at the >>>project end you would be pulled off to other tasks... maybe I'm wrong. >> >> You aren't wrong, the major projects are all ending so you won't see quite >> as much activity as before though we've no intention of leaving this all >> cold turkey. >> >>>Can you shed some light on the near future of the module mantainership wise? >> >> We've confirmed funding for a couple of years for a couple of people to >> maintain the AuScope portal and associated stack - which includes Geoserver. >> I'm hopeful we can stretch "maintain" to mean, "perfect some parts and track >> changes in standards". I'm also helpful the interest and code base will >> continue to grow and might eventually not have sole reliance (and we seem to >> be heading that way). >> >> Ben will be working on another project with me but we'll still be part of >> the same group working closely together, albeit somewhat smaller and spread >> out over projects. I've also little doubt many of the team will want to >> continue to contribute in their "spare" time regardless of what projects >> they are working on. > > Nice, thanks for the summary. > It seems like you'll have more than enough to actually perform > maintainership, what is required normally is > the will to fix bugs and follow up user questions, it is well > understood that improvements and new functionalities > depend on significantly higher resourcing. > > +1 on graduating the module to supported, it's clear it will have > mantainers behind it. > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability > What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. > Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools > to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > -- Ian Turton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
