This discussion is striking me badly as many of these represent our technical
direction; and I am not interested in killing them just because they are not
used by geoserver or uDig.
I think a larger issue is that some of these modules have not attracted any
"replacement" module maintainer. Perhaps we are too mean to module maintainers.
I am not particularly worried about checkout time; but build time is a concern
(we had the idea of breaking out "pending", etc..).
Let me suggest a more radical move; as I am also tired of being asked questions
about DBF (twice this year) or geometry (three times this year) without any
funded interest. Especially dangerous when people see code and decide they will
wait for it to be ready...
So let me suggest a more radical move:
- kick unsupported into a separate branch (we already don't make it as part of
our download; lets not make it as part of our maven build either), and we can
supply instructions on how to build the code. This would at least encourage
volunteers to say "i will work on that" at which point it could be moved into
...
- "pending" for the modules that actually have a plan to move to supported
status
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