It seems everyone enjoyed their break over the Christmas holiday season; I
find myself unable to attend the IRC meeting time slot.
In the last month I have really enjoyed my time with the uDig community; we
have our first decent GeoTools 2.6 based release out (actually our first
decent release based on anything other than GeoTools 2.2.x).
I would like to spend a similar amount of effort on GeoTools this month; and
the first step for me is going to be communication. I am going to hang out
online (informal chat - only needs to be a meeting if we get too many issues
to sort through without an agenda).
There seems to be two times for me to meet people (outside of my work hours)
that will let me chat with developers in europe and then north america.
7pm for me; lets me talk to Europe at 9am
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=2&day=2&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=179&p3=215&p4=240
7 am for me (same as the udig timeslot) lets me talk to North America (and
anyone in europe staying up late)
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=2&day=2&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=179&p3=215&p4=240
My first priority is to check in with Andrea about stripping out the old
Filter code; and see if we can make some progress on FilterCapabilities (to
build up a function list) and look at the Function API itself.
I then have two interesting ideas (to me at least) for the rest of the
month:
- to go over the rendering data model and renderer (cleaning things up so I
can document it). This would be of great value to the community and
"complete" the user guide; however I am not sure how much enthusiasm the
community can must up for this work?
- go through the the library and work out the OSGi bundle information; and
if people are enthusiastic we can revisit the Factory SPI contract (and see
if we can seperate out plugin from interface a bit more cleanly - although
perhaps that is GeoTools 3 foundational work). This idea depends on hunting
down a Mr. Harald Wellmann who has down a lot of the background OSGi
research.
I have a couple more "breakout" topics that we can visit on if I can round
up the relavent parties:
- I keep meaning to ask Adrian Custer how to set up bzr - I may tempt him
into a breakout IRC session / tutorial / installfest
- Frank Gasdorf seems to be a serious user on the MemoryFeatureCollection
front; it would be fun to construct and test a few solid implementations
based around his actual needs
- I would love to have a guided tour of the jdbc-ng work and discuss
migration stratagy
- Justin has proposed some facinating change proposals around cleaning up
the feature collection / feature source heirarchy (I did the bare minimum
before the 2.5.x branch; but some good ideas are still on the table)
If it is okay with everyone I would like to do some hands on work this
month; as a community if informal IRC sessions are popular / productive. I
have some sensible ideas about how to transition to GeoTools 3 (based on the
python 3 migration plan).
Jody Garnett
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