I like where you are coming from Landon, I tried to help with a round of docs
(but would really like to see content datastore finished).
One of the most smooth summer of code experiences I had was talking a group of
students through the udig and geotools tutorials using a google hangout session
to go over any troubles from last time.
--
Jody Garnett
On 12 October 2013 at 4:08:00 AM, 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. :]
If the community decides this is a horrible idea, I will not get hurt feelings.
:]
Landon
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