[geotk] Begining release cycles

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Hello all

We plan to release a milestone every month. Today geotoolkit 3.00 has been 
deployed on the maven repository (http://maven.geotoolkit.org/) and is hopefully 
ready for use. The source, javadoc and the pack200 binary are ready on my local 
machine and will be put on a server tomorrow - probably on 
http://download.geotoolkit.org/ (to be setup).

To the best of my knowledge, the public non-deprecated API does not have any 
"should not be there" feature (e.g. proof of concept, or facade without actual 
implementation yet).

Note on the version number: "1.x" refers to the "pre-geotools" age (Fishery and 
Oceans Canada, Seagis...). "2.x" refers to the "geotools 2" age and "3.x" refers 
to what we are trying to do now. The intend is to keep a trace of the historical 
root. Despite the relatively high number, I see "3.00" more like a milestone 
than a "rock-solid" release.

Any change in the public API of the 3.00 release will be handled by the usual 
"deprecate, then delete" cycle. For every release, a list of API changes 
compared with the previous release will be published (there is tools that we 
plan to experiment).

This release contains essentially the referencing module and the core of the 
coverage module. For more elaborated functionalities like the renderer, please 
refer to the "geotoolkit-pending" repository which has its own release cycle. 
Johan Sorel can tell more about what is in the pending repository.

JIRA is available for both "geotoolkit" and "geotoolkit-pending" (click on the 
"all projects" tab for geotoolkit-pending):

     http://jira.geotoolkit.org/browse/GEOTK

Anyone is very welcome to try as they wish

	Best regards,

		Martin