[geomoose-psc] GeoMoose 2.x retirement

[Jim Klassen]

Hearing no objections, I will make the announcement.

On 10/16/18 12:30 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
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>> On Oct 15, 2018, at 7:33 PM, Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com
>> <mailto:klassen.js at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I think it is time to officially retire support for the GeoMoose 2.x
>> series.  To that end, I would like to notify our users (ahead of
>> time) by making an announcement on geomoose-users, and adding
>> appropriate news items/noting the status on appropriate places on the
>> GeoMoose website.
>>
>> What say ye?
>>
>>
>> Draft announcement:
>>
>> ============================================
>>
>> GeoMoose 2.x is getting long in the tooth and plans to retire in
>> April 2019.
>>
>> Summary:
>>
>> Due to GeoMoose 2.x requiring now very old versions of it dependences it
>> is becoming increasingly difficult to support.  As such, the GeoMoose
>> team is announcing retirement for the GeoMoose 2.x series as April 2019.
>>
>> This doesn't mean your older GeoMoose installations will suddenly stop
>> working.  However, the GeoMoose 2.9 demo (on
>> https://demo.geomoose.org/2.9) will be shutdown and the development team
>> won't have ready access to develop and test changes to the 2.x series. 
>> As such, the GeoMoose team recommends upgrading to GeoMoose 3.x.
>>
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> GeoMoose 2.x requires old versions of Dojo (1.6) and OpenLayers (2.13). 
>> Neither of these libraries are currently under development or supported
>> upstream.  Updating to current versions of these libraries requires
>> major reworking of the GeoMoose 2.x code.  (In fact, this is what
>> prompted the development of the GeoMoose 3.x series).
>>
>> The bigger problem is that PHP services shipped with GeoMoose 2.x
>> require PHP 5 and PHP MapScript.  These don't exist in recent Linux
>> distributions (e.g. Debian Stretch/Ubuntu 16.04 and newer).  The April
>> 2019 date is set to coincide with Ubuntu 14.04 EOL.
>>
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