[mapguide-internals] RE: GDAL Stability (Was: Project Sponsorship)

[Tom Fukushima]

Hi Zac,

I'm sure I could be blamed for some part of this as well.  Sorry.

Learning and improving is a good thing.

To address what happened here, I think that it would be great if those community members who are watching trac tickets do the following:  Check to see if the ticket has enough information for you to reproduce the problem in a short amount of time (guideline of less than 10 minutes---not including the time it takes to download the data).  If it doesn't then make a request to the ticket creator to add the missing information.

Thanks
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:57 PM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] RE: GDAL Stability (Was: Project Sponsorship)

My bad for not filing a test case earlier :( sorry

that said, I'm disappointed that I wasn't pinged about this (even off list)
as I have been rather vocal about this issue and given the limited knowledgeable
development resources that the time was wasted simply trying to
reproduce the bug

This is a good example of how the development process could be improved

z



On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Tom Fukushima
<tom.fukushima at autodesk.com> wrote:
> The bad news is that we already allocated our time trying to reproduce the defect (without success) and have moved on.
>
> However, I think that Steve will have time to be able to work on this in the new year.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:17 PM
> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
> Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] RE: GDAL Stability (Was: Project Sponsorship)
>
> The good news is Tom was finally able to reproduce the bug using the
> package I created :)
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Link to the package is against the ticket
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/462
>>
>> z
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Tom Fukushima wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We didn't do any testing with MrSID and ECW.
>>>>
>>>> We don't plan on doing MrSID and ECW, because if there are problems we
>>>> don't
>>>> have any control of those libraries so we would have to add workarounds in
>>>> the GDAL provider code; and that is more work than we can take on.
>>>> Threading problems are one of the worst time sinks.
>>>
>>> Jason,
>>>
>>> It was also my advice to Tom to focus first on a "well behaved" driver like
>>> GeoTIFF.  The lesson is that the problems are likely GDAL driver specific
>>> rather than relating to how the GDAL FDO provider is implemented.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
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