[Java-collab] IRC Meeting followup

Mon Jul 27 11:59:07 EDT 2009

Jody,

You wrote: "I would appreciate  your take on the OSGeo Labs steps required."

Let me look into it today and I will get back to the mailing list.

Landon

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Jody Garnett<jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Landon:
>
> I have talked to Martin a bit (mostly around the technical steps of
> breaking apart Geometry into two layers: Geometry and Operations - in
> order to share operations implementations between a SFSQL and ISO19107
> implementations). We both estimated costs (he was half my cost) and
> have been looking for sponsorship for a couple of years. I have also
> been sending interested parties his way as recently as last month; but
> without money on the table I suspect the really great way forward is
> closed off to us.
>
> So lets sneak up on it slowly with this java-collab geometry project
> :-) It is easier to get funding if we can point to an existing effort
> after all.
>
> So far I have gone over the geotools-collab agreement
> (http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/9765352/GeotoolsAssignmentToOSGeo.pdf?version=1)
> and it just mentions assignment to OSGeo; and that the code will be
> stored on GeoTools servers. This is fine to use as is ... to store the
> geometry code in a "spike" directory (where GeoTools has often
> supported collaboration experiments in the past).
>
> I would appreciate  your take on the OSGeo Labs steps required.
>
> Cheers,
> jody
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Sunburned
> Surveyor<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think I will have time to work on the actual code, but I would
>> be happy to assist Jody (or whoever) with a review of any documents
>> needed to get an OSGeo Labs project started.
>>
>> Just let me know.
>>
>> Has anyone thought about asking Martin Davis if he will participate?
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Markus Schneider<schneider at lat-lon.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Jody,
>>>
>>> sorry for being unresponsive last week, but I was heavily involved in customer projects work :-(
>>>
>>> We also would like start with the collaboration ASAP. Here's my stance on the open questions:
>>>
>>> == License ==
>>>
>>> LGPL is just fine for us.
>>>
>>> == Code contribution agreement ==
>>>
>>> Can you provide a draft for this? Probably the GeoTools agreement should work fine (at least as the starting point).
>>>
>>> == Hosting==
>>>
>>> I would prefer OSGeo labs as the mid-term/long-term solution as this expresses the inter-project character. @Jody: How
>>> long will it take to get this started? If this is not feasible however, we should just host it at the GeoTools or
>>> deegree SVN -- after all the most important thing is getting work done and not the question where we host it.
>>>
>>> What about other needed tools? Will TRAC do for a homepage / wiki?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Markus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>> Hi Markus:
>>>>
>>>> The red tape involved in getting this going is making me sad. What
>>>> woudl it take to get Andrea, myself and other interested parties into
>>>> the a seperate module in the deegree repository?
>>>>
>>>> Jody
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Jody,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for your efforts. Hans Plum of intevation.org suggested another option: setting it up as a separate project at
>>>>> http://wald.intevation.org/ (where deegree is hosted as well).
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess we would like to see it either as a separate project or (at least in the mid-term) hosted it as a separate
>>>>> module in the deegree repository -- after all, we're going to start with the corresponding code base from deegree 3, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Markus / Rutger
>>>>>
>>>>> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>>>> With respect to an svn repository for java-collab.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I went and asked on the incubation list about setting up an svn to
>>>>>> hold java-collab work. And got a very polite reply from Frank asking
>>>>>> if this could be hosted in the existing osgeo svn repository for
>>>>>> geotools.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - there is an over head associated with an svn repository
>>>>>> - we have not sorted out any of the code license/commit
>>>>>> access/contribution questions
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recommend LGPL as both Deegree and GeoTools are comfortable with this license.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right now markus has offered to set up an isolated repository on the
>>>>>> deegree svn. We could also follow franks suggestion and offer access
>>>>>> to http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/spike/ which is where we keep
>>>>>> works in progress.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jody
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Andreas Schmitz<schmitz at lat-lon.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thought a log of the IRC session might be useful:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://web.lat-lon.de/~schmitz/logs/osgeom_2009-07-08.txt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards, Andreas
>>>>>>> --
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>>>>> Markus Schneider
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>> Markus Schneider
>>>
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