Alex, comment from the maintainer ...
On 22/07/2013 4:22 PM, wrote:
Dear Cameron,
I think it is time to gracefully retiring the MapTiler 1.0 beta2 open
source version and removing it from the OSGEO LiveDVD.
Thank you and the whole LiveDVD team for support and all the effort
you put into this project. I hope we can work together in future on
other projects.
P.S.
The MapTiler is popular and used by thousands of people world wide, it
seems to be successful as a product in it's new version, but it failed
as an open-source project. It looks like it is easier for our users to
pay a few USD for the software, then to contribute with a source code
or help others on the forums.
On 25/07/2013 7:09 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
I agree, if Hamish is willing to upkeep the project we should keep it.
My students found it to be the easiest tiling solution on the disk. I
don't see it really being all that different from the mbtiles output of
Tilemill in context/purpose.
Were there other more specific reasons provided by the previous maintainer.
Thanks,
Alex
On 07/22/2013 06:11 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote:
Hi,
I actually support Hamish - if he is willing to do the "little" effort,
as he says. Because usefullness and matureness is important too. How big
its user commmunity is? who knows...
stefan
Am 22.07.13 20:35, schrieb Cameron Shorter:
I'd like to hear thoughts on whether we should be retiring MapTiler.
My thoughts are that we should be helping new users find established
Open Source projects, which typically are projects which have a strong
community behind them.
I note that MapTiler hasn't changed version number since OSGeo-Live 3.0,
and is still reported as a beta status.
I also note from the Ohloh metrics, there seems to be very little
development:
http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html
I suspect that users might be moving to another project instead? Eg:
GeoWebCache?
On 23/07/2013 8:28 AM, OSGeo wrote:
#1167: Retire MapTiler
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Reporter: camerons | Owner: live-demo@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: OSGeoLive7.0
Component: LiveDVD | Keywords: maptiler
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As per request from Klokan Petr Pridal, the MapTiler point of
contact, we
should retire MapTiler.
Of note, MapTiler has remained at version 1.0beta2 for a few years now
(since OSGeo-Live 3.0), which suggests a diminishing open source
community
behind the project.
Todo:
* Update maptiler Project Overview and Quickstart to retired status in
main docs.
* comment out install_maptiler.sh from main.sh installers
* comment out maptiler from metrics.rst docs
On 23/07/2013 9:03 AM, OSGeo wrote:
#1167: Retire MapTiler
Comment(by hamish):
I find the MapTiler program to be still useful and relevant, and
would by
willing to maintain it on the live dvd on an ongoing basis. (it's
tiny and
zero maintenance anyway so I don't mind much)
Since it just works, it doesn't matter that there hasn't been a new
version in ages.
It just means it is mature; the GDAL backend it uses regularly
updated so
it "gets updates" that way.
regards,
Hamish
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