Am I the only one who feels that making Geotoolkit announcements on this list is inappropriate? I understand that you have your reasons for forking, and I respect that. But this fork was in no way authorized or approved by the GeoTools PSC.
This is just my opinion, but this seems more or less like an attempt to poach resources from the GeoTools community, which I have serious issue with. Many people have put a lot of hard work in building the geotools library into what it is. You have publicly stated that the end result of this work is "not good enough" in so many words. Doing that and then using resources that those same people have worked long and hard to build goes against the spirit of good will that we are trying to maintain. The other PSC members may disagree with me here, but I would prefer that you use other forums for making these sorts of announcements. -Justin Vincent Heurteaux wrote: > We are pleased to announce the new free software project Geotoolkit > which is building a world class, standards based, Java language code > library for geospatial applications. > > The Geotoolkit web site is available at > > http://www.geotoolkit.org/ > > which is automatically generated from the code itself. > > Geotoolkit is free software. Daily builds of the project as binaries and > source code bundles are available from the project web site. The code is > licensed to anyone for any use except that re-distribution comes with > some minor responsibilities designed to ensure the same freedoms for the > recipients. The code is currently licensed to all users under the terms > of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2. The code copyright > is assigned to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The source > code is available to online at > > http://hg.geotoolkit.org/ > > and can be obtained using the mercurial distributed version control > system with the call: > hg clone http://hg.geotoolkit.org/geotoolkit/ > which will provide users with a fully independent copy of the repository > including the full history of the project itself and able to generate > locally a working copy of any revision. > > Geotoolkit is based on standards shared broadly by the geospatial > community. Geotoolkit leverages the GeoAPI project which defines Java > language interfaces for the standards published jointly by the > International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Open > Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The core Geotoolkit library currently > implements the following standards: > ISO 19103 Geographic Information --- Conceptual schema language > ISO 19115 Geographic Information --- Metadata > ISO 19111 Geographic Information --- Spatial referencing by > coordinates > while extensions implement: > ISO 19108 Geographic Information --- Temporal schema > OGC 05-078r4 OpenGIS Styled Layer Descriptor Profile of WMS --- sld > OGC 05-077r4 OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation > Specification --- se > and there are plans to implement more of these standards and their > profiles. > > Geotoolkit aims to be clean and well designed. The library should build > and deploy a full version of the code every day, including the maven > jars and artifacts, the project web site, and the API javadocs. The code > should open in the major Integrated Development Environments without > errors or warnings (except where such warnings are wrong). All public > code should be correctly documented, must follow the design of the Java > language, and should be designed properly for method and field access, > class inheritance, and code reuse. > > Geotoolkit is built on the strengths of the Java language. The library > follows the architectural design of the core Java library so as to > provide the Java programmer with a familiar programing environment. The > library exploits recent improvements to the language syntax for improved > code quality. The library aims to run on the recent, high performance > virtual machines developed by the major providers of Java > implementations for maximum performace. > > Geotoolkit uses the Mercurial distributed version control system. These > systems such as Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial have recently swept the free > software world due to a fundamental technical superiority over previous > generation systems. Among the advantages of these new systems, they > allow every developer to be the master of their own destiny, unfettered > to advance in any direction they see fit and able collaborate with > anyone in any way they choose. Mercurial is one of these systems, > recently chosen by Sun for its work on Java, by the Python community for > hosting the Python code, by the Mozilla foundation for hosting the > Firefox project, and by several other major projects. > > Project goals will be targeted to making the library as good as it can > be rather than meeting any technical or marketing need of any third part > project. The library will aim to provide regular releases. The project > will develop, as the user community grows, a formal process by which > contributions can be integrated to the central repository. > > The governance model for Geotoolkit has not yet been finalized but it > will aim to separate out the community management aspects of governance > from the technical decisions. > > Geotoolkit hopes to become a project of the Open Source Geospatial > Foundation (OSGeo). It has formally asked to be accepted for incubation > with the foundation which is the usual preparatory step for projects > wishing to be accepted by the foundation. > > Several projects already use the Geotoolkit library. The Constellation > web server (http://www.constellation-sdi.org/) provides high-performance > web services conformant with the CSW, SOS, WMS and WCS specifications of > the Open Geospatial Consortium based on Geotoolkit. The MDWeb project > (http://www.mdweb-project.org/) provides both a server for metadata > conformant with CSW-T and a web client based on the capabilities of > Geotoolkit. The MapFaces project (http://www.mapfaces.org/) provides a > framework for building web clients based on the geospatial infrastrcture > and local rendering capabilities provided by Geotoolkit. The desktop > client Puzzle GIS (http://puzzle-gis.codehaus.org/) uses Geotoolkit as > its base library. We also know of one comercial application already > being built using Geotoolkit. > > > > Geotoolkit is a fork of the GeoTools library. Geotoolkit retains the > long term goal but differs in its work approach: keeping the fundamental > requirement of user freedom but restoring an emphasis on code quality, > following closely the improvement of the Java language itself, > leveraging new tools for decentralized collaboration, affirming the > independence of the project from any specific user community, and > restructuring the governance model. > > Anyone interested by the Geotoolkit library, by our goal of building a > great Java language geospatial library, and by our vision for a > distributed, collaborative project should look at the Geotoolkit web > site, browse the javadocs API documentation, clone the source code > repository to build and tinker with it, try out the commandline tools, > and see if the project suits their needs. Projects which are based on > GeoTools today can be ported to Geotoolkit relatively easily using a > migration tool in Geotoolkit, other geospatial projects will have to > evaluate how to transition towards the ISO/OGC spatial data schema and > the GeoAPI interfaces. > > > Vincent Heurteaux > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations > Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of > expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry > leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. 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