On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surve...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I wanted to contact the GeoTools programming community about some ideas I
> had about making it easier for new programmers to contribute new
> unsupported modules to GeoTools. These ideas came from my involvement with
> Julian on the Summer of Code Project.
> I'm an experienced Java programmer with lots of time using version
> control systemns like CVS and SVN. Despite this, it was a huge challenge to
> learn both Git and Maven in order to contribute to GeoTools. Under normal
> circumstances, I wouldn't have been worth the effort to me. I suspect the
> same thing is true of other programmers that might otherwise contribute to
> GeoTools.
> What do you think about having GeoTools appoint an Unsupported Module
> Mentor? This person could assist new GeoTools contributors in a number of
> ways. This might include accepting source code contributions for new
> modules, updating this source code when there has been changes, and
> creating the pull requests for the changes to the unsupported modules in
> GitHub.
> In essence, the mentor would serve as a code gateway for programmers
> that want to make modest contributions to GeoTools, but that don't want to
> invest in setting up Git, GitHub and Maven for what might be a minor amount
> of code. The metnor would try to shepherd unsupported modules to supported
> status.
> Let me know your thoughts. If this idea has merit, I'd be willing to
> serve as the first Unsupported Module Mentor. In this way, other potential
> GeoTools contributors could benefit from my pain this past summer. :]
>
I think it's a brilliant idea, if you feel like you have an interest and
time to dedicate to the cause, by all means, go ahead with it :-)
(of course, this is just my opinion)
Cheers
Andrea
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