dear mapBuilder friends, just to say congratulations for the work developed till now in MapBuilder; it has been a really good job and consider a pity you stop developping but you know the reasons much better than me.
maybe because it was my first big webgis project but I learned a lot with it. I've to say it was hard to costumize your own tool because mapBuilder uses a lot of different technologies (DOM, js, XSLT...) but after some time learning it's great (the good documentation also helped a lot). cheers and thanks for all, Pere Roca biòleg i especialista GIS visita EDIT mapviewer! (prototype) http://edit.csic.es/edit_geo/prototype/edit.html Cameron Shorter wrote: > > > > > > > > End of life for Community Mapbuilder > We, the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, have agreed that the > time has come for the Community > Mapbuilder > project to gracefully retire. We will release a final, stable 1.5 > version of the software, and afterwards there are no planned > enhancements to Mapbuilder. The web pages and code will be kept alive, > a few bugs might be fixed and we will likely continue answering user > queries, but we expect Mapbuilder will gradually fade away into > history. > Why? > Mapbuilder is a stable, > feature rich, standards compliant, fast, webmapping framework with a > strong developer community. Why has it come to the end of its life? > The > browser based webmapping space has become crowded and other webmapping > clients have increased in functionality and attractiveness to users. In > particular, Openlayers is simpler to use, has attracted an increabibly > strong developer community, has good quality control and development > processes, and has developed most of the webmapping functionality > previously only offered by Mapbuilder. Basically Openlayers is > attacting the majority of the users and developers that previously > would have used Mapbuilder. One day someone will write a compelling > paper on the history of the two similar projects and analyse the key > differences and decision points which led to one project out shining > the other. > But we are not crying > Well, > maybe we feel a twing of loss for the Mapbuilder project we started > years ago, but in the bigger picture, we see the retiring of Mapbuilder > as a good thing. It will allow the greater web mapping community to > consolidate and rally around the remaining webmapping tools – in > particular, around Openlayers. > There has been significant > collaboration between the Mapbuilder and Openlayers communities over > the last couple of years. Mapbuilder has incorporated Openlayers as its > rendering engine and fetures have been shared between projects. In many > cases, developers from both projects worked together on the same > codebase (in Openlayers), then ported up to Mapbuilder. This was a > deliberate move toward the merging of the two developer communities and > most of the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee have contributed to > the Openlayers codebase. > So in essence, by changing our > allegience from Mapbuilder to Openlayers we take with us some of our > code, we replace some features with equivalent Openlayers features, we > take our community with us, and we gain an existing, robust and > welcoming community. > What should Mapbuilder users do? > Users > have a few options. You already own the source code, so you are welcome > to continue maintaining and extending the Mapbuilder code for as long > as you like. At some point, users will likely want to upgrade, and at > that point we suggest considering Openlayers for your application. It > now provides the majority of the fuctionality that was previously only > offered by Mapbuilder. > What about Mapbuilder's standing with OSGeo? > Having > a graduated OSGeo project retire might be seen as an embarassment for > OSGeo, however, I'd argue it is a strength. It shows two projects > growing together under the OSGeo umbrella and evenually merging into a > stronger, more focused community. > However, it does raise a > dilemma with regards to what should be done with a retired project. > Some of the key OSGeo criteria, like “Community Backing” and > “Best of > Breed Software” will gradually be lost, so we should not continue to > promote Mapbuilder. Still, we wouldn't want to erase Mapbuilder's > history with OSGeo as our community has documented valuable lessons > learned during the graduation process. > I suggest a new “retired” category be created which keeps > track of > retired projects. > Thanks > We, > the project steering committee, have derived a huge amount of pleasure > building Mapbuilder and working with the Mapbuilder Community. For many > of us, Mapbuilder has been a launching pad into a fullfilling Open > Source and/or Geospatial career. We'd like to thank all the users, > developers and supporters of Mapbuilder we have met along the way. > > > > The Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, (in order of appearance): > > > > Cameron Shorter > > > Mike Adair > > > Patrice Cappelaere > > > Steven M. Ottens > > > Matt Diez > > > Olivier Terral > > > Andreas Hocevar > > > Gertjan van Oosten > > > Linda Derezinski > > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Systems Architect > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions > http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Mapbuilder-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/End-of-life-for-Community-Mapbuilder-tp18688073p18728216.html Sent from the MapBuilder Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mapbuilder-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users
