Dear Geotoolers, in order that this doesn't reflect only PSC member's idea, let me please add one from a non-so-geotools-involved-but-long-year-free-gis-devel person as I am.
I honestly do not see the point in seeing the fork as hostile. Yes, it is for sure a pity to see things split, but we are talking about free like in freedom, so please, who is without sin cast the first stone... or else just try to be constructive. Honestly I think that only heavy criticism can make such a fork hostile. I feel that a forking project has every right to use the projects mailinglists at least once to tell the community reasons and future directions. IMHO efforts should be made in direction to keep the two projects as near as possible and inspect possible ways to exploit each other. I hope to be able to drive my netcdf soc project along these lines. With my hands dirty in both geotools and geotoolkit... for he good of uDig. And I would expect to get help from both parties. All the best, Andrea On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Martin Desruisseaux <martin.desruisse...@geomatys.fr> wrote: > Hello Justin > > Thanks a lot for your clarifications (sincerly). > > Justin Deoliveira a écrit : >> My objection to this email is that it implied (to me at least) that the >> Geotools PSC was endorsing this fork. When it was not, it is was one PSC >> member who decided to fork. > > If it implied that, it was not our intend and we will need to fix our > wordings. > We admit (all of us) that "Geotidy" has been a source of confusion and should > never have mentioned "Geotool 3" on his web page. At the time Geotidy has been > created, we though that we would find some way to merge it back to GeoTools > trunk. We underestimated the difficulties - some of them caused by our own > demarch. I hope that with Geotoolkit, we can make it more visible that it is a > unilateral fork. I also hope that given the identical license and copyright > owner, each project can find inspiration in the other one if they wish. > > Martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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. Use code vel09scf > and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > Geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list Geotools-gt2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
