Hi all, Sorry I missed the IRC meeting today, was out of the office. I just read through the logs and wanted to share my thoughts.
It was no shock to me that people are surprised about the sudden move to make rest and geosearch core modules. First off, i have to apologize b/c this process has been poorly managed by me. These needed to be included in 1.7.1 and I did not spend any time before hand working to get them to a "releasable" state. The requirement to include these modules comes down from those who pay the bills... so not getting them into this release is not really an option. So the best I could come up with is a compromise. To include them in this release but start the process toward moving them to core modules, test coverage, documentation, etc... And indeed making this a blocker for the 1.7.2 release. So I know we are diverging from project policy for this release but I ask for leniency. Moving past his and ensuring that this sort of situation does not pop up again. We *desperately* need a proper and detailed road map for the project. Currently we sort of organize jira for a single release pushing back all sorts of issues to the next release and doing it all over again. While this works on a release by release basis its not all that great for long term planning. Having a proper road map in place would allow us to much better plan when requirements come in from people with money who want features. I am open to strategies on how to plan this road map. I know a lot of different people want to see a lot of different things and have different requirements. So I am not sure how to proceed in order to build a balanced and fair road map. Thoughts? Suggestions? -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
