[Live-demo] Crunch time for Geomajas on OSGeo-Live

[Dirk Frigne]

Angelos,

Thank you for the pointer.
We are taking action right now and I will keep  you informed.

Dirk

On 2017-06-18 18:07, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> +1
> 
> Please review these 2 documents and send us a pull request with any
> changes:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/overview/geomajas_overview.rst
> 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/quickstart/geomajas_quickstart.rst
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Angelos
> 
> On 06/16/2017 11:36 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Dirk,
>>
>> Thanks for your response. The Geomajas' community has traditionally
>> been very responsive and helpful when we have reached out which we
>> appreciate and goes in your favour.
>>
>> If GeoMajas can update their quickstart to OSGeo-Live standards within
>> the next week (preferably the next few days), my recommendation to the
>> OSGeoLive PSC will be that we keep GeoMajas (at the current version)
>> for this upcoming release, and re-assess based on activity for the
>> next release.
>>
>> Documentation guides are here:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Documentation
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Cameron
>>
>>
>> On 17/6/17 1:25 am, Dirk Frigne wrote:
>>> Cameron,
>>>
>>> On my resposibility:
>>> My formal answer is *yes* to include geomajas in the next release of
>>> OSGeo-Live.
>>>
>>> I suggest to keep the same version number.
>>> We will work on the quickstart session, this is something I can control
>>> and I will take action for it.
>>>
>>> There is a lot of stuff developed by customers, who want to donate to
>>> the community, but I need to motivate and 'INSPIRE' some of the
>>> developers and stakeholders. So I suggest an infusion for geomajas to
>>> get it back to live and into a vibrant community. (with a more active
>>> and renewed PSC resulting in new Openhub Metrics).
>>>
>>> If there is no new release when we discuss the next release of
>>> OSGeo-Live, I will be the first to promote retirement for geomajas.
>>>
>>> thank you for your patience with a bit a sick patient, but should be
>>> able to recover or resurrect in another way.
>>>
>>> Dirk.
>>>
>>> On 2017-06-13 23:02, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>> Dirk,
>>>>
>>>> We are at crunch time. We haven't heard a define yes/no re including
>>>> GeoMajas on OSGeo-Live. As mentioned earlier, it is ear marked for
>>>> retirement unless we can see action on following points:
>>>>
>>>> "Propose to retire. No recent version change on OSGeo-Live. No recent
>>>> activity in OpenHub metrics"
>>>>
>>>> "Quickstart is too short and not following writing tips (in the udig
>>>> quickstart). It needs to show how to do 1 typical task. Look at
>>>> GeoServer quickstart for inspiration. Quite a bit of work required
>>>> here."
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>
> 

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