[Java-collab] Greetings from JTS/JUMP/JEQL

[Jody Garnett]

Afternoon all,

I am here as a member of GeoTools, GeoServer and uDig, I am mostly 
interested finding out what other projects are up to and helping out if 
there is opportunity.

I would be happy to call Martin's bluff on shared tests; right now 
GeoTools has a fork of JTS-1.7 and we would love to have an easy way to 
download the tests he has written up, I know several other projects are 
running their own Geometry classes and may also benefit. Martin can you 
think of any easy way to make those available?

But I think the biggest "request" for me is a lot of my projects are 
using maven repositories to track their dependencies; (either via maven 
or via ant). I would love to have a copy of jts deployed to the official 
maven repositories so it gets replicated around the world for us.

Cheers,
Jody

Martin Davis wrote:
> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>> Martin wrote: "the first challenge for this list is to establish a
>> value proposition based on some looser level of collaboration"
>>
>> Forgive my ignorance Martin. What do you mean by this?
>>   
> All I meant was that trying to collaborate at the codebase level can 
> sometimes get bogged down in isses (both technical and political).  I 
> think you gave some examples in your email.  8^)    My thought was 
> that perhaps there are ways to collaborate which don't involve 
> different projects "handing over the keys" or getting forced out of 
> their comfort zone.
> An example might be the ideas coming out of the MetaCRS group about 
> establishing common unit tests for CRS APIs.
>