Tim Williams wrote:
Now to the road-map I see for views and the lm-branch:
1) Fix all issues with the lm in the lm-branch (there are just minor
ones that I am aware of)
2) merge all lm related stuff with trunk (branch->trunk)
3) merge all view changes into whiteboard trunk (branch->trunk) That
step is and should be independent from step 2, it is only after this
step because we now have 1 contract that is based on the lm stuff.
4) *Stop* and freeze developing the view plugins in trunk!!!
5) Open view-branch and start to integrate views into the core
I think the only issue with the locationmap branch that I can find is
FOR-554. With the suggested workaround that I describe below, I think
we can take that off the list for now and allow the branch to go ahead
and be merged.
Your workaround is a good one. I also note you are working with the
Cocoon community to solve the problem in a more permanent way. Please
provide a patch for your workaround, I will apply it early next week
(out of office until then).
The actual merge is going to be complex though. When the views were
brought over there was a partial merge of the tree so there and now it
appears that people don't want it to go back into trunk.
I don't want to tackle this until I have a good couple of hours to focus
on it. I doubt that will be until the tail end of next week.
2) I've come to understand that we need a more robust location
resolution error handling capability (as described in another post
that apparently wasn't well received). It basically said that we
should ultimately be reporting in error messages all locations that
were searched for a resource rather than whatever happens to be in the
"otherwise" clause.
What do you mean "apparently wasn't well received"? I don't recall any
objections. In our community that means people are either neutral or
like the idea, it means thay have nothing else to add. I'm not sure how
you will do some of the more advanced stuff (like say we checked here,
here and there, at least not without hard coding that info) but I agree
we can do at least improve on what we already have.
This, of course, also assumes that everyone agreed that for now we
should revert the fresh-site dependency on views until they're ready
to come out of whiteboard.
Yes, Thorsten says he wants views to go into their own branch.
Anyway, as I said, I don't mean to come across pushy on this
locationmap branch but I think it's ready to merge and shouldn't grow
moldy.
You are doing the right thing. Right now there are only the two of us
active on Locationmaps I'm busy with other things for a short while and
so you are left on your own to keep things moving. This is not at all
pushy, but *exactly* what we, as a community want, If we don;t like your
proposal we can always say no.
Ross
