Well since there is disagreement I guess we need to open it up to other PSC members and developers to weigh in on this issue before we can move this forward.
Jody Garnett wrote: > Justin Deoliveira wrote: >> An example off the top of my head would be integrating geoserver with >> another components... say for instance we wanted to bundle up >> Geonetwork as a geoServer extension. (This is hypathetical yes). But >> it already has its own tools and methods for configuration, so i don't >> see much point in redoing it in the GeoServer user interface. >> > Fair example; could we ask for a small user interface contribution - a > simple link to the GeoServer UI showing > up once a administrator has signed in? >> Anyways, I agree that a user interface is important for any >> extension... but not as important as keeping a low entry barrier >> imho. The last thing I want to tell a developer who is willing to >> spend time to maintain a contribution that they have to learn wicket >> and build a pretty user interface before we accept it. >> > I understand and respect your concern here; if this was a developer > facing product like GeoTools I would be in agreement, I view GeoServer > as moving out of research mode and into product mode for GeoServer 2.x > series - as such I like to stick to my guns on this one. The user > interface is the application; and if a customer is paying me to bring a > module in as a geoserver extensions I could not honestly expect them to > take me seriously if the functionality did not show up in the user > interface. > > Jody -- Justin Deoliveira Software Engineer, OpenGeo http://opengeo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
