[Mapbender-dev] Code moved into SVN

[Arnulf Christl]

Leonhard Dietze wrote:
> Arnulf Christl schrieb:
>>
>> This is also a good time to review who (developer) does what and maybe 
>> even distribute some of the more boring tasks involved in code review 
>> to more shoulders. Or hands. Dunno what you use to code.
> 
> I just came back from some days off. What kind
> of things can I possibly do within the code
> review process or where else? 

Hi,
we are currently putting together a list of todos. While we are at it we 
also clean the code and remove modules that are deprecated, it wouldn't 
make sense to check them when they will be dropped soon. Once we are 
done with that we would be very happy for people to join the Code 
Provenance Review process for Mapbender Incubation at OSGeo. Read more 
in the Wiki:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Mapbender_Provenance_Review

The other major construction site is that we are preparing to implement 
prepared statements to address a security issue which finally has been 
resolved by MySQL. As it will require to upgrade to MySQL 5+ we will add 
a switch to select whether or not to use prepared statements. Then we 
can go through each module and prepare to prepare for prepared 
statements. Or something like that.

Meanwhile we would invite you to read through three updated sections in 
the Wiki:
http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Development_Process
http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Voting_Process
http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Mapbender_Code_Repository

If this is unclear or does not make sense to you please tell us about 
it. We are formalizing theses processes as part of the OSGeo incubation 
process, read more in the OSGeo Wiki:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Mapbender_Incubation_Progress

> I am also not quite
> sure if my and others code can somehow added as
> possible add-on like it was suggested by I think
> Uli at the FOSSGIS-conference: put it in a
> separate CVS-directory without warranty. 

We are checking how this can be done in SVN. Once resolved we will let 
you know through this list.

> You
> might want to have a look at the current
> project I am doing with Mapbender (or does
> somebody want (or has the time) to look at
> added source code? Its a bit specific code for the
> application as I have data of several layers in
> different years, therefore I had to add a module
> that helps me to handle the layers differently.
> Check it out:
> http://www.hgis-germany.de/
> 
> Leo

For the code - yes we would like to have a look at it and no, we don't 
have the time to do that right now. :-(

But we want to intensify cooperation with new developers who have stood 
outside the fence so far - thus all the above links.

Best regards,
Arnulf.