Hei Jan, thank you for your comments. We/I will consider them carefully.
greetings from Zurich stefan Jan-Oliver Wagner schrieb: > Hi Stefan, > > Am Donnerstag 22 März 2007 22:01 schrieb Stefan Steiniger: >> Out of the discussion yesterday and today in a personal talk with Erwan >> we realized that the project (from Erwan), but also other people like >> me, have (1) other needs for functionality than Desktop GIS end-users. >> (2) Furthermore, in response to the FOSSGIS in Berlin, we see a need for >> a legal entity for organizing workshops and receiving money for >> particular developments. >> >> *) The proposal we have now, is that JPP would focus on end-user >> developments. The OpenJUMP enduser version will still be hosted on >> Sourceforge (probably under the JPP umbrella). Further we will establish >> a second OpenJUMP Reserach Version (which will obtain later a different >> name), on that Erwans team can work on and will be a GIS platform for >> research. >> Here it is not yet clear where this project will be hosted (several >> proposal have been made: Intevation, SourceForge or IRSTV institute >> (http://www.irstv.cnrs.fr/) .. thereby I do prefer a sourceforge account). >> >> It is intended that for endusers useful functionality will be merged >> into the original OpenJUMP (which needs of course people to do that). > > I do recommend to not arrange future development this way. > IMHO it is much better to maintain a single source code repository > where both version live and share the same code. > This has the big advantage that merging code basis andback/forth > patching might not be dropped at the end of the day due to lack of time -- > I've seen this happen oce too often. > > Keeping a differenct version for the end-user could be done with some > technical help easily. E.g. a configuration that makes the GUI appropriate > for > end-users and to make it show all the bells and whistles. > > Additinally, branching will help to maintain stable releases or > to play with strange new core-changes. > >> *) With respect to the legal entity: Erwan offered to give SIGLE, which >> is already one, a sligthly different objective than currently. This >> means SIGLE should renamend (eventually to OpenJUMP Research Consortium) >> and interantionalized (not only to the european scale) to be able to >> organize development and teaching on OpenJUMP and OpenJUMP-R. > > If it only is a matter of managing financial apects, e.g. the GAV > (www.grass-verein.de) might help (they managed the financial stuff > of the recent FOSSGIS in Berlin already). All infrastructure is there > (tax-excempt etc). > But going with SIGLE transformed into some *OJ* sounds OK as well. > It is ust the question whether the effords are doable (don't underestimate > the effords, Intevation helped to raise three such entities so we have > our experiences). > >> A personal final comment: We need to re-think who will drive JPP and >> what and who is JPP? I will be rather commited to the research version, >> for the case of staying on a university by autumn this year. > > Sustainability is supported by commercial activity. Scientifc projects > come, have high activity and suddenly end any such. So, they are extremely > valueable but can not ensure the sustainability. > What also helps sustainability is regular use of OJ in university lectures > and programming/use seminars. > > Best > > Jan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
