Hi Martin,

On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:

> Hello Chris
> 
> Le 30/07/12 19:50, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) a écrit :
>> OK to clarify, OSGeo will discuss this issue at their board meeting on 8/9?
> Yes, I will keep this list informed.
> 
> 
>> Sure feel free to start threads here on sis-dev@ to discuss your thoughts.
> I saw the 5 modules in the root directory of the SIS project. The first thing 
> that come to my though was that if the project growth to 1 million lines of 
> code (which could happen relatively fast), we are going to have a lot of 
> modules. What about a directory tree a little bit deeper, which regroup 
> modules by category? We could have the following categories among others:

The below look pretty good in terms of organization. I like the idea of having 
top-level modules too.
A few comments:

> 
>  * utilities

Before we create a utils package, I like to find classes that don't fit in any 
of the other
categories. Do you have some ideas as to what would fit into here now?

>  * metadata

I would imagine metadata here would refer to arbitrary metadata support and/or
specific Geo metadata models? If so, then I think we should leverage Apache Tika
(http://tika.apache.org/) as much as possible for doing that. There are already 
a few
issues filed to help tie together Tika and SIS here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-32
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-605


>  * referencing

Is this like geo-location and geo-referencing for coordinate system support?
If so, I filed an issue already for this:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-9

>  * geometry

Seems similar to:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-51

(distance being just one of the many possible
geometric functions)

>  * feature

We don't have support for this yet, if this is like WFS, etc.

>  * coverage

WCS?

We did discuss a WMS-like service here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-28

>  * processing

What type of processing would this be? Like raster processing? Tiling?

>  * index

I think I called this "storage" -- this would be the persistence layer for the
spatial data structures, e.g., 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-8
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-33

>  * display

For us, this would be:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-43

>  * client

I think for us this would be:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-11
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SIS-46

> 
> Each category is a directory, which contains one or many modules. For example 
> the "coverage" category could contains the following modules:
> 
>  * sis-coverage
>  * sis-coverageio
>  * sis-coverageio-netcdf

Sure that makes sense.

Think about the above in the context of the JIRA issues I sent you and I would 
be happy
to discuss smallish, intermediate next steps to get there.

> 
> I noticed that the current SIS code contains a "sis-core" module. What about 
> trying to put the content of "sis-core" in some more specific modules? 
> Otherwise I think that core may become very big if "referencing", "geometry", 
> "feature" etc. are considered as core...

Sure, that makes a lot of sense. Right now, core is a catch-all for 
functionality that sis-webapp and sis-app depend on.
But, I'd be happy to discuss a better refactoring based on the above.

Cheers,
Chris

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