Can I ask who the maintainer is? The pom.xml does not say, checking history
I see Niels and Justin as some of the initial commits.

I would recommend a separate community module.

We should keep your feedback in mind (do not pull together so many
extensions into a single module).

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:02 AM Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm looking into publishing the MBTiles vector tiles datastore, and
> wondering what to do with the existing mbtiles community module
> in GeoServer, which is at the moment, in my opinion problematic:
>
>    - It packages into a single zip the store dependency, a WMS output
>    format, and a WPS process.
>    - The WMS output format is dangerous for the GeoServer stability, as
>    it allows clients to make a very long request, building a large mbtiles,
>    without any control or timeout.
>    - The WPS process adds a dependency to WPS, while maybe someone just
>    wants to display a MBTiles file but without WPS GeoServer won't even start
>    up.
>    - The module adds nothing else, there is no custom GUI for the stores
>    or anything like that.
>
> An option can be to create a separate assembly, mbtiles-store-plugin, that
> only packs the store, and leaving the mbtiles module there.
> Works, maybe it's a bit confusing... but I'm wondering, is there anyone
> caring about the WMS format and the WPS process?
> If not, the easiest thing could be to scrap the module, simplify the
> assembly, and clean up the docs.
>
> Ideally it could be split into 3 modules, but don't have the time to go
> there (help to go there is more than welcomed though!).
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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