On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here is what i came up with for an announcement draft.
>
> @Jody: I found your draft from 8.1 really hard to edit. Can we maybe put
> something up on the wiki that will allow for some cut and paste and just
> plugging in version numbers. Also I think just a link to the "history of
> GeoTools 8" from teh announcement should suffice. Can we put that list you
> had in the 8.1 announcement up on the wiki somewhere and just link to it?
>
> I had arrived at the same conclusion and was going to add it as an example
> to the developers guide. The original file is attached now for you.
>
> The GeoTools community is pleased to annonce the release of GeoTools 8.2,
> available for download from
> SourceForge<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.2/>
> :
>
> -
> geotools-8.2-bin.zip<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.2/geotools-8.2-bin.zip/download>
> -
> geotools-8.2-doc.zip<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.2/geotools-8.2-doc.zip/download>
> -
> geotools-8.2-userguide.zip<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.2/geotools-8.2-userguide.zip/download>
> -
> geotools-8.2-project.zip<http://sourceforge.net/projects/geotools/files/GeoTools%208%20Releases/8.2/geotools-8.2-project.zip/download>
> - GeoTools 8.2 Release
> Notes<https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10270&version=18766>
>
> This release is also deployed to the OSGeo Maven
> Repository<http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/org/geotools/>.
> For more information on setting up your project with Maven consult the
> Quickstart<http://docs.geotools.org/stable/userguide/tutorial/quickstart/index.html>
> .
>
>
> *About GeoTools 8.2*
> *
> *
> GeoTools 8.2 is primarily a bug fix release containing some good fixes:
>
> - GEOT-4230 <https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4230> - Histogram
> operation does not pass through low,high,numBin parameters
> - GEOT-4254 <https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4254> -
> CustomPaletteBuilder dies on translate BufferedImage
> - GEOT-4255 <https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4255> -
> Reprojecting feature collection fails if bursa-wolf params are missing in
> either source or target crs
> - GEOT-4263 <https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4263> - TimeParser
> in ImageMosaic is too lenient
> - GEOT-4005 <https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-4005> - Provide
> logging for cascaded WMS queries
>
> I think I regret listing GEOT-XXX numbers and descriptions; since they are
> often worded as problems rather then fixes. Still it is fast to do…
>
> Is wording them the other way around much better?
>
Hmmm... i don't know but it seems pretty clear to me that we simply list
out the original bug reports, meaning they were fixed release. There is
also overhead here to consider. With the above list we can simply copy and
past, i don't really want to spend an hour rewriting every ticket
description.
>
> GeoTools 8.2 is a bug fix release, the following fixes are highlighted:
>
> * Histogram operation handling of low, high and numBin parameters
> * CustomPaletteBuilder fixed to work with translated BufferedImage
> * etc...
>
>
>
> A number of these improvements came in from the community via GitHub pull
> request:
>
> - https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/15
> - https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/16
> - https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/17
> - https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/18
> - https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/19
> - https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/21
>
> Yeah that does not work at all… does not give readers the ability to scan
> the announcement and see if they care.
>
> How about …
>
> Thanks to community members for the following github pull requests:
>
> * Thanks to mbenowit for fixing ContourProcess
> * Davide Savazzi for fixing ContentFeatureCollection isEmpty method, and
> the logging cascaded WMS queries
> * Tim Schaub for improving exception messages
> * Victor Olaya for reviewing function parameter names
> * Peter hopfgartner for setting up Reprojecting feature collection to use
> a wider range of transforms
>
> Yeah, again imo i don't want to spend a day just on the announcement.
Thanks for putting this together though, wil update my version. Also the
first one in this list i don't believe was every merged directly.
> Cheers,
> Jody
>
--
Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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