Re: [Geoserver-devel] GSIP 31 restart

2009-01-21 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Justin Deoliveira wrote: > Rob Atkinson wrote: >> If the GSIP process takes so long, maybe we should have a single one >> "fix everything" - seriously the effort that goes into breaking down >> the big picture into small, regression testable changes needs to be >> supported by a far more efficient

Re: [Geoserver-devel] GSIP 31 restart

2009-01-21 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Rob Atkinson wrote: > And in the meantime it sounds like Ben will have completed a local > spike and be ready with the patch :-) > > If the GSIP process takes so long, maybe we should have a single one > "fix everything" - seriously the effort that goes into breaking down > the big picture into sm

Re: [Geoserver-devel] GSIP 31 restart

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Atkinson
And in the meantime it sounds like Ben will have completed a local spike and be ready with the patch :-) If the GSIP process takes so long, maybe we should have a single one "fix everything" - seriously the effort that goes into breaking down the big picture into small, regression testable changes

Re: [Geoserver-devel] GSIP 31 restart

2009-01-20 Thread Jody Garnett
Understood; we also need to balance this with helping Ben through the hoops :-) I had a good skype session with Rob and Ben yesterday and I will try and assist Ben as he documents what he intends to do. Let us both try to review this page as it takes shape; I worry that we have many different part

Re: [Geoserver-devel] GSIP 31 restart

2009-01-20 Thread Justin Deoliveira
Hey Jody, Up front I want to say that I realize we are putting this proposal though many more hoops we do the standard proposal. But given 1) the order of magnitude of the change and 2) the history of this topic, I think the extra hoops are warranted. So in terms of what I think the proposal n

[Geoserver-devel] GSIP 31 restart

2009-01-20 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Justin, I am going to restart the conversation on just this point - the proposal needs to be more explicit in order for anyone to vote on it. What level of detail are we looking for in this proposal; if this was design work we could ask for nice class diagrams as per your catalog proposal. This