[mapguide-internals] Participation in FOSS4G WMS Shoot-out

[Zac Spitzer]

I'd love to get invloved with this, but due to it being close to end
of financial
year, I'm extremely over allocated at the moment.

Happy to help a bit, but I'm in your boat Jason

Perhaps we should fire a message off over on mg-users and see if
anyone wants to work help out?


On 21 May 2010 09:12, Jason Birch <jason at jasonbirch.com> wrote:
> I certainly have no objections to participating if there's someone who
> has time to run with it, but I unfortunately do not (though I would
> hope to be able to free up time to help).  Zac, if you have time I'd
> be happy to start a vote to give you official sanction (whatever that
> means).
>
> On 2010-05-19, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the answer Bruce.
>>
>> So it seems that there is no technical reason stopping MapGuide from
>> participating in the WMS Shoot-out. Of course there is the question of
>> availability of resources which I fully appreciate since it's an issue
>> for all of us.
>>
>> The benchmarking team is already late on its schedule and needs formal
>> answers/commitments from all teams ASAP. Could we get an official answer
>> from the MapGuide Dev/PSC team? Everybody would love if MapGuide could
>> join the fun, but if that's not possible then the benchmarking team
>> would like to have an official answer that they can refer to when they
>> have to explain in front of ~1,000 people why software A, B or C was not
>> involved.
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry for being persistent. I promise it's the last time I ask.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> Bruce Dechant wrote:
>>> MapGuide supports WMS up to and including version 1.1.1
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
>>> Morissette
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:27 AM
>>> To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Cc: Jeff McKenna
>>> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Re: Participation in FOSS4G WMS Shoot-out
>>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> (Sorry for the late reply, I am subscribed to the list only in digest
>>> mode and sometimes may miss some replies. If you CC me then I can reply
>>> right away.)
>>>
>>> FYI SLD is not a requirement, as long as you configure your server to
>>> use the specified styles (line width, colors, etc).
>>>
>>> Also, the tests use WMS version 1.1.1, and only with very basic GetMap
>>> calls. Which version of WMS does MapGuide support?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> Jason Birch wrote:
>>>> I'd love to see this happen, but I don't think we have the resources to
>>>> dedicate to participating or to fixing any issues that were highlighted,
>>>> which would be even more important.
>>>>
>>>> I have a feeling that this benchmark would expose considerable weaknesses
>>>> in
>>>> MapGuide, some of which we care about (raster stability), others not so
>>>> much
>>>> (shapefile performance), and things like our lack of SLD or newer WMS
>>>> version support may mean that we can't even participate even if we wanted
>>>> to.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Jason
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Morissette
>>> http://www.mapgears.com/
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