Hi, Jody! Thanks for your answer. I hold this community in the highest regard and I did not wish to convey any negative idea about it. I apologize if I did that
The idea of the community modules is great and I fully understand the support limitations regarding these. I also understand the limitations of community support versus paid consulting even for supported modules. You are one of the people I think it is not fair to ask more of, you already do a lot. I have spoken to my management and my team that we intend to hire external support for our foss4g stack if and when our service scales. I tried to give the list participants a small nudge to reply to the questions. The other alternative I thought of for the answers to catch up with the questions was to encourage people to spend at least an hour trying to solve the problem before e-mailing the list (which I did). That would, however, probably go the other way around. I wouldn't feel very welcome if someone asked me that. Thanks for the pointers on where to get the information. I checked the github page and found the main committers to the jdbcconfig module. pom.xml does not list maintainers, but has a lot of committers. Best, Daniel -- Daniel Araújo Miranda Forensics Expert Inteligeo - Geographic Intelligence National Institute of Criminalistics Brazilian Federal Police Em 11/07/2016 18:32, Jody Garnett escreveu: > The jdbconfig module was mentioned as a community module in the > release notes. It is especially difficult to ask for > assistance/support on community modules where the work is not being > released as part of GeoServer. We set up the "community module" idea > to encourage students and companies to share their work in progress, > experiments and features to encourage collaboration. Not every group > is in position to meet the quality assurance and documentation > requirements to have their work included in GeoServer. > > If you are interested in any of the projects here > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/src/community you > may wish to check if the work is actively maintained: > > - if the community module is not actively maintained ask on the email > list if there is anyone else working on the functionality - perhaps > you can combine forces? The developer responsible may need > encouragement/assistance or a contract to complete the work to meet > the documentation and quality assurance requirements for the Project. > We have to be careful in the GeoServer community not to take on > functionality that is unsupported and unmaintainable. > > - If the community module is actively maintained review the pom.xml > file to determine who is taking care of it, many of these individuals > are listed on our commercial support page > > I do understand that community modules are frustrating, the promise of > functionality that is *just* out of reach. We find this less > frustrating then helping developers (sometimes for months) complete > features that we never get to see. At least this way we have access to > the source code and can build on their work (either directly by > completing the functionality, or indirectly by using the work as an > example/inspiration). > > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 8 July 2016 at 04:54, Daniel Araujo Miranda <miranda....@dpf.gov.br > <mailto:miranda....@dpf.gov.br>> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > In the short time I have participated in this list I have got the > impression that the rate of questions asked in this list somewhat > exceeds the rate of questions answered. > It is not fair to ask more of the developers or the other > geoserver > volunteers, so if you know the answer to mine or any other question, > please chime in. > > Thanks to all, this is a great community around a great project. > > --Daniel > > > Em 05/07/2016 13:08, Daniel Araujo Miranda escreveu: > > Hi, everyone. > > I am trying to download the JDBCConfig module for > installation in > > my new geoserver 2.9 server, and I cannot find the file for > download. > > > > Here is what I tried: > > -Read the docs at > > > > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/community/jdbcconfig/installing.html > > -Went to http://geoserver.org/release/stable/ and clicked on > > "extensions", and searched for the > > geoserver-2.9.0-jdbcconfig-plugin.zip. That seemed to me to be > the right > > place, because there were zipfiles with the names of a lot of other > > extensions. > > -Did the same above for geoserver 2.8.4, found a lot of > extensions, but > > not this one. > > -Searched again for the related module JDBCStore, also could not > find it. > > -Googled for geoserver-2.9.0-jdbcconfig-plugin.zip with no success > > -Checked the release notes for geoserver 2.9.0 at > > http://blog.geoserver.org/2016/05/30/geoserver-2-9-0-released/ > > and found a mention of the JDBCConfig module under "Resource REST > > API", which leads me to believe that it is currently supported. > > -Found the source at > > > > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/src/community/jdbcconfig > > and tried to compile Geoserver from source (although that was > also > > motivated by a specific LDAP need of mine). Compiling from > source proved > > to be too much right now, I am not familiar with the codebase and > > haven't programmed in java for a long time. I would like to keep > > everything stock to make maintenance easier and documentation > shorter. > > > > > > > > Should the zipfile be available at the locations I looked? > > Is that module current (I take it that it is since the latest > commit was > > 15 days ago)? > > Is it necessary to compile the module from source? > > > > I apologize if I have missed something obvious. Please point me > in the > > right direction. > > > > Best, > > Daniel Miranda > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Attend Shape: An AT&T Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT&T Park > in San > Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech > luminaries > present their vision of the future. This family event has > something for > everyone, including kids. 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