Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-05 Thread andrea antonello
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 t

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Desruisseaux
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 wa

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Justin Deoliveira
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. Apologies if my email was taken as a personal attack of any kind, it was not intended to be. Forking is part of open sourc

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Simone Giannecchini
Ciao Justin, as on Open Source project (and also given the "style" of the message and responses we are seeeing) we can just do three things: 1> state once again that the announced project is a fork, or better an *hostile* fork 2> ignore their messages from now on 3> do what we think it's best for

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Desruisseaux
Martin Desruisseaux a écrit : > Also from the last statement in your second paragraph, its look like > that you do not realize that the vast majority of the work that I > migrated to Geotoolkit up to date was my own work - while I aknowledge > the good work of Rueben Schulz on projections (espe

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Desruisseaux
Hello Justin Don't worry, it was our only anouncement. Personnaly, I will sign off from all GeoTools mailing list soon, when it will look like that no question is going to be asked (not necessarly about geotoolkit - it could have been about the future of the referencing module for instance). I

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Vincent Heurteaux
Hello Justin, By starting this discussion you probably know that it will make more advertising to Geotoolkit h ? 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

Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-05-04 Thread Justin Deoliveira
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 l

[Geotools-gt2-users] Geotoolkit announcement

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent Heurteaux
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