Raif S. Naffah ha scritto: > hello all, > > apologies for the intrusion on the list but may i suggest an alternative > to simply removing those extensions which could be a potential source of > funding for the GeoServer developers: grade the extensions, say into > three levels of quality (high, medium, and low) and continue publishing > them. users can then judge for themselves and would know what to expect > if they find a bug. this of course depends on a minimal level of > functionalities these extensions should have --beyong getting compiled > without errors :-) > > later on, and on regular basis you could study the download figures and > a decision to retire or change the grade of extensions can be made.
Mumble, what would the criteria be? Atm we have the following: - whatever is in the core distribution is actually supported and used by the developers - real GeoServer extensions (i.e., imagemap, excel) have support, they are just not considered of general interest enough to be part of the core distribution but they could be considered high quality - a number of data/coverage store (oracle I'm looking at you) extensions may have a maintainer but the level of support on them is definitely lower (medium) - certain extensions are not really working, and we know it. We could say they are "low" quality, but it's kind of a stretch since we all know they have no maintainer at all -> support level on them is zero solid. If you want to actually use them, better be a developer that can fix any issue that might come up. I have troubles going out and tell the world "here, this is not working and we know it". I mean, by the same token we could start adding other stuff that's sitting in GT2 as well no? Looking into geotools unsupported we have netcdf, geomedia, gpx, geometryless, sql-datastore, tiger that are in no real better shape of the gml datastore. Maybe they work, maybe they don't, no core dev really knows any better than that (I never tried out the gml/vpf datastores for example). Afaik the idea behind providing gml2 datastore was around the lines of "let's see if anybody is interested enough to step up and become maintainer of that stuff". A more serious approach, imho, could be to list all of these and point people to the sources: "Interested? Jump on the dev board and help us with any of these modules". Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
