On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin, > > I am a bit concerned that more functionality is being layered on top of > an incomplete model. Am I missing something or is there still an > assumption of a one-to-one mapping between workspaces and namespaces? I > support the idea of having per-workspace services, but until a workspace > can contain multiple namespaces, this is of no use to anyone delivering > related feature types in different namespaces.
Ben, it's the model we can get funding for, so it's the model we can afford. The many entities that are funding GeoServer improvements today are evidently not using complex features, and naturally they are pushing for what they need. Last time I wanted something really badly (WPS) I just ended up pushing it in my spare time. For such large efforts it's really painful, but it can be done. Give it a thought. Btw, app schema wise, you could really steal a page from the WPS effort. It started humble but tried to provide out of the box something that people could play with (a simple annotation driven api and a request builder). Now that we have something people feel they can use funding is coming in both as new processes (coming in monthly) and as new abilities (see the asynch and general robustess work). We rarely see people interested in complete green field development, they often want that 2% that is missing from the picture to satisfy their needs. App-schema is there, I've been told it works, but honestly I would not consider doing anything with it unless someone really asks for it, because it's just too hard to setup. GeoServer users want a GUI, give one to them and you might start seeing more people interested in using it, and also the funds it needs to more forward. Especially people that can access funding, they are often not the techies that enjoy eating XML for breakfast. Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
