2010/6/5 Andrea Aime <aa...@opengeo.org>: > 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?
I want to mention something else that we can do based on my personal experience, which we already are doing to some extent: Responsiveness, I'm attracted to this list because of the level of activity and the responsiveness of this list. In other words, I always get replies to questions that I asked, even if someone doesn't know the answer, they might still be able to point me in the right direction to look for the answer. This makes me feel a lot more comfortable working with the code. > >> 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 > -- L I M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
