Michael Bedward ha scritto: > I agree with the points that Justin has made. The codebase is a much > bigger hurdle for prospective developers than the Java version and I > think it's extremely important to be mindful of what our users' > constraints are. There's not much point "embracing change" (yuk) if it > results in a shrinking user community. As for being "technology > leaders" etc. - I'd prefer to see leadership defined in terms of the > usefulness of what we provide (useful code + a pool of knowledge + a > supportive community) rather than just 6 > 5 :-)
Yeah, I guess you're right. The question before the java 6 question was actually "how do we make the code base more approachable, how do we get more contributors"? The recent set of simplications go in the right directions. More docs go in the right direction as well. What else can we do? > Meanwhile, I'd be curious, like Andrea, to see what the folks on the > user list think. My guess is that it's not on the radar for most of > them judging by the absence of posts about it. Michale, you're the users list master, if you feel like asking, just go ahead :-p Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
