[Live-demo] Retire MapTiler?

[Cameron Shorter]

I'd like to hear thoughts on whether we should be retiring MapTiler.

My thoughts are that we should be helping new users find established 
Open Source projects, which typically are projects which have a strong 
community behind them.
I note that MapTiler hasn't changed version number since OSGeo-Live 3.0, 
and is still reported as a beta status.

I also note from the Ohloh metrics, there seems to be very little 
development:
http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html

I suspect that users might be moving to another project instead? Eg: 
GeoWebCache?

On 23/07/2013 8:28 AM, OSGeo wrote:
> #1167: Retire MapTiler
> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>   Reporter:  camerons  |       Owner:  live-demo@…
>       Type:  task      |      Status:  new
>   Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive7.0
> Component:  LiveDVD   |    Keywords:  maptiler
> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>   As per request from Klokan Petr Pridal, the MapTiler point of contact, we
>   should retire MapTiler.
>
>   Of note, MapTiler has remained at version 1.0beta2 for a few years now
>   (since OSGeo-Live 3.0), which suggests a diminishing open source community
>   behind the project.
>
>   Todo:
>   * Update maptiler Project Overview and Quickstart to retired status in
>   main docs.
>
>   * comment out install_maptiler.sh from main.sh installers
>
>   * comment out maptiler from metrics.rst docs

On 23/07/2013 9:03 AM, OSGeo wrote:
> #1167: Retire MapTiler
>
>
> Comment(by hamish):
>
>   I find the MapTiler program to be still useful and relevant, and would by
>   willing to maintain it on the live dvd on an ongoing basis. (it's tiny and
>   zero maintenance anyway so I don't mind much)
>
>   Since it just works, it doesn't matter that there hasn't been a new
>   version in ages.
>   It just means it is mature; the GDAL backend it uses regularly updated so
>   it "gets updates" that way.
>
>
>   regards,
>   Hamish
>


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