[Board] mapfish project status

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Hi Jody,

On 19.11.19 01:02, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Earlier this year we places several osgeo projects that were not 
> communicating (or no longer meeting osgeo expectations) into the OSGeo 
> community program.
> 
> One project that asked for some more time was mapfish:
> 
> * The mapfish.org <http://mapfish.org>http://www.mapfish.org/ website 
> uses the old logo and documents MapFish 2.2 released in 2016
> * The osgeo project page was never filled in 
> https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mapfish/ (1)
> 
> The good news is that the the project is very much alive, has a new 
> GeoMapFish name, website <https://geomapfish.org>, code base 
> <http://github.com/camptocamp/c2cgeoportal>, and a new development team 
> (indeed I am not sure if any current members took part in the incubation 
> process).

This is quite surprising news for a former MapFish commiter. I wasn't 
aware that there is any relaton between the MapFish project and the 
c2cgeoportal project besides the new name.
MapFish had a very compelling architecture with a clear separation of 
server and client side with a JSON API in between. As far as I remember, 
C2C later decided to start a new project with a classic monolithic 
approach. On our part we kept the Ruby on Rails server implementation, 
which is actively developed under the name Mapfish Appserver. It's not a 
real community project, since it's mainly developed by the Canton of 
Zurich on their internal Git server today.

> 
> On the bright side Emmanuel and the MapFisk PSC produced a page for the 
> AGM (slide 59) which is great and really improves communication.
> 
> My question though is simple - should we remove MapFish as an OSGeo 
> project, and invite GeoMapFish to apply to the OSGeo Community program, 
> or should we ask this PSC to quick march this project through the 
> incubation checklist requirements to preserve continuity?

Since only MapFish Print is still alive, which is a Java application 
inherited from the CartoWeb project, the MapFish project should be 
officially retired.

Regards
Pirmin