[Incubator] MetaCRS
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Sun Sep 15 13:38:15 PDT 2013
Treating Proj4, and its derivatives as a grouped project if their owners
are interested may still be a good idea and easier to manage as a single
project than MetaCRS because of the common codebase.
BTW, in addition to PROJ4J and PROJ4JS, I just found out about
https://github.com/evanmiller/ProjCL
Daniel
On 13-09-14 9:13 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> I apologise, my comments refer to proj4. I have previously used proj4j
> (which is probably why I keep getting the terms confused).
>
> On 14/09/13 21:38, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> Hi Cameron,
>>
>> You seem to be interchanging the names proj4 and proj4j in your
>> messages. Can you please indicate if you are refering to proj4 (the C
>> lib), proj4j (Java port of proj4), or to suggesting a combination of
>> both as an OSGeo project? In the latter case should we consider also
>> proj4js in the pack?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 13-09-13 11:08 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Frank,
>>> I'm ok with a project being in incubation if the project is making
>>> steady progress toward an incubation goal. From what I can gather, the
>>> MetaCRS project has stalled, and as such we should think about options,
>>> such as incubating the sub-projects of MetaCRS individually.
>>>
>>> I think that proj4j is worthy of an OSGeo stamp of approval. I expect
>>> that proj4j would pass all OSGeo incubation criteria, except the broad
>>> base of contributors?
>>>
>>> The broad base of contributors criteria is a measure of the future
>>> viability of the project. In the proj4 case, I believe that a strong
>>> case can be presented that the project would continue on, even if Frank
>>> were to stop maintaining it tomorrow.
>>> Reasons:
>>> 1. There are many technically competent proj4j uses with a vested
>>> interest in proj4j being maintained. These users would almost certainly
>>> step up to continue maintaining proj4j if required.
>>> 2. proj4j is a very mature code base, which I suspect doesn't require
>>> much maintenance any more?
>>>
>>> As such, I'd like to see a case put forward for proj4 to be incubated,
>>> as I think it would be voted through by our committee.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/09/13 10:01, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Cameron,
>>>>
>>>> The reason MetaCRS was done as a sort of meta project was that it was
>>>> perceived that each would be too small on it's own to be considered a
>>>> viable community. If were to try and incubate them separately, how
>>>> would we address that concern. For instance, at least at times PROJ.4
>>>> has been essentially a one man project despite having a fairly broad
>>>> user base.
>>>>
>>>> I had vague aspirations that a sort of community would gel amount the
>>>> components of the MetaCRS project. There has been a little synergy
>>>> out of this, but quite far short of what I might have hoped for in
>>>> terms of gelling.
>>>>
>>>> I must say, I'm not sure of the way forward.
>>>>
>>>> I, personally, am ok with this sitting in incubation of for a while
>>>> longer but I realize that some other folks on the committee would like
>>>> to see time horizons shorter than a decade for the incubation
>>>> process. :-)
>>>>
>>>> We could actually reasonably easily (IMHO) push the copyright review
>>>> phase ahead. But I'm not sure how worthwhile that is without a
>>>> meaningfully gelled shared community.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Cameron Shorter
>>>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Daniel, Frank,
>>>> I suspect that the grouping of the MetaCRS projects together would
>>>> be making it hard to complete incubation, because you would be
>>>> needing to check back on all projects to confirm completion of
>>>> each incubation step?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe a way forward would be to push each project through
>>>> incubation separately? I suspect that proj4j should be able to fly
>>>> through the criteria very quickly by itself?
>>>>
>>>> On 13/09/13 23:13, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jody, all,
>>>>
>>>> I am currently the mentor for the MetaCRS project, which is a
>>>> kind of a special case because it is an aggregate of multiple
>>>> CRS-related projects, given that each of them is not big
>>>> enough on its own, but that the services they provide are
>>>> critical to all OSGeo software, and we thought that
>>>> cross-collaboration between those projects can be a great
>>>> OSGeo asset and a way to raise their respective bus numbers.
>>>>
>>>> I still believe that MetaCRS should try to get through
>>>> incubation, but I can't find the time to work with them in a
>>>> proactive way towards that (and they have not made that a
>>>> priority either).
>>>>
>>>> All this to say that if another experienced mentor is
>>>> interested, then it may be a good idea that I leave this
>>>> project to a new mentor to work with the MetaCRS projects to
>>>> figure how to handle their special situation and get them
>>>> through incubation.
>>>>
>>>> The lead of the MetaCRS project is Frank Warmerdam BTW.
>>>>
>>>> Any volunteer?
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>>>>
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>>>> warmerdam at pobox.com <mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com>
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>>>> <http://pobox.com/%7Ewarmerdam>
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