Arnulf, > One is, that our developer community is pretty disconnected to the > outside world. I learned this lessen when hearing about MB3 specifics in > a public event. As a member of the PSC this is somewhat strange, to > express it mildly.
The community-focused approach to free sofware development seems to not have benefitted the codebase of Mapbender much from what I can read in it, and while I certainly value users and developers for their insights and contributions, I can only repeat that I believe that the Code needs serious improvement. We (mainly this is Arash, Christian and me) have an idea of how to achive this, namely using Symfony2/MapQuery, and we will very likely be the ones who will implement this as the foundation of what MB3 will become. Let me be perfectly honest: To me putting that decision before the PSC, means asking the PSC to rubberstamp it. And I don't mean that in a derogatory sense - I just don't see the PSC deciding that - no, this is a bad idea we will do XYZ instead. This does not mean that there is no room for suggestions and if you have a good case for doing something else entirely I think everyone involved will lend you their ear. What it does mean, is that I think that having more discussion on what and how to do things will be fruitless if there isn't at least a prototype of which we can say "Look this is what we think would be a good idea - come forth and critisize" At least this is what I draw from "release early, release often". Regards, Karim _______________________________________________ Mapbender_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev
