completely agreed here.
Gabriel
Justin Deoliveira escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry I have not gotten a chance to send this sooner, things here at 
> foss4g have been a bit crazy.
>
> So as many know we have been moving toward pushing out 1.7.0 with the 
> current release candidate at RC3. However there have been a few 
> significant KML changes made since that. Off the top of my head:
>
> * making KML schema compliant
> * tweaking the super overlay stuff
>
> As a result I am not very comfortable releasing 1.7.0 without another 
> release candidate. For instance, on 1.7.x there is a bug with the reflector:
>
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-2258
>
> And in general KML on 1.7.x has suffered from a few regressions. Amr 
> from refractions has reported at least 3 problems with KML on 1.7.x.
>
> Now the real problem is that we have basically zero test coverage for 
> our KML stuff... which is pretty bad imho since we are trying to make a 
> big push on that. And I will be the first to say I am as guilty as 
> everyone else for not writing tests when working on the kml stuff.
>
> So before moving much further with KML improvements we really need to 
> improve our test coverage. We also have the option of rolling back 
> recent changes and apply them after 1.7.0 goes, similar to what David is 
> doing with height templates. I believe Arne is doing this with his patch 
> for kml schema compliance?
>
> Regardless I think we need another release candidate, RC4. And before it 
> goes out I think we need to add a significant number of test cases for KML.
>
> What do people think?
>
> -Justin
>
>   


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