On 18-Oct-07, at 9:19 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: > hi, > Christopher Schmidt píše v Čt 18. 10. 2007 v 08:58 -0400: >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:42:15AM -0400, Paul Spencer wrote: >>> Erik, >>> >>> are the Addins intended to be officially supported, but outside the >>> core library? Or are they intended to be third party contributions >>> that are 'use at your own risk'? >> >> I think my personal intention is that they are 'officially >> supported by >> their developer', and that users can expect help from the mailing >> list, >> IRC, etc. If the WMS Manager goes into addins, I expect Lorenzo to >> support the users of it via the OpenLayers infrastructure. >> >> So, I wouldn't expect that I would be answering every questino >> related >> to every addin, but I would chip in, and I would expect other >> developers >> to take an active role in supporting their users. >> >> If the OpenLayers trunk breaks compatibility with an addin, I >> think that >> the OpenLayers project would have a responsibility to fix it. >> >> To me this is definitely not 'use at your own risk': these are things >> that are meant to work with OpenLayers. If they don't, that's a >> problem, >> and the project has a responsibility to make sure that doesn't >> happen. >> If we find that an addin is not 'up to snuff' -- that is, it's >> consistently broken, or it's not being maintained -- then in my mind, >> it doesn't go into addins -- and if it's already there, we consider >> taking it out. >> >> Make sense? > > further more, IMHO Addins should be better tested, because of more > users > will use it and so, they are natural candidates to appear in the > Trunk, > if they could be used by general user. >
I'm happy with this rationale. Cheers Paul +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chief Technology Officer | |DM Solutions Group Inc http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
