[mapguide-internals] Motion: Commit rights for Andre Barth

[Hugues Wisniewski]

Hi Jason,

That might be dating from when he was granted the rights to submit to  
the rfc94 sandbox. Just a thought.

Hugues


On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:42 PM, "Jason Birch" <jason at jasonbirch.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> bit fuzzy; Andre already has a CLA on file?
>
> On 2010-11-11, Bruce Dechant <bruce.dechant at autodesk.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to extend Andre Barth's rights so he can submit to the  
>> MapGuide
>> trunk depot.
>> Andre would be contributing to the coordinate system  
>> MgCoordinateSystem API
>> that is a wrapper around the CsMap API.
>> Andre is already a committer to the CsMap depot and the goal of his  
>> activity
>> on the coordinate system API is to expose CsMap functionalities to
>> MapGuide's API
>>
>> On the CsMap side, he's been assisting Norm Olsen this past year  
>> while the
>> RFC2 was designed:
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/csmap/wiki/CsMapRfc2
>> He then worked on the CsMap test suite to identify regressions  
>> triggered by
>> the redesign (a regression in that code would also mean eventually a
>> regression in MapGuide's code, so this work was critical)
>> This CsMap RFC2 re-engineering work led to the MapGuide RFC94 to  
>> open the
>> functionality to the rest of the public API:
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/sandbox/rfc94/
>> The software design for the RFC94 was provided by Andre as well as  
>> the
>> implementation, and then reviewed by Norm Olsen.
>> The code was developed and submitted by Andre to the sandbox for  
>> the RFC94
>> where he had commit rights:
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/sandbox/rfc94/
>>
>> Once done, the RFC94 sandbox was then merged into the MapGuide  
>> trunk, and
>> this was done by Norm Olsen who has commit rights to the trunk.
>> This work lead to the creation of the following interfaces and their
>> implementation behind:
>>
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticAnalyticalTransformationMethod
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticAnalyticalTransformDefParams
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticInterpolationTransformDefParams
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticMultipleRegressionTransformationMethod
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticMultipleRegressionTransformDefParams
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticPath
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticPathDictionary
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticPathElement
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformDef
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformDefDictionary
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformDefParams
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformDefType
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformGridFile
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformGridFileFormat
>>
>> The existing implementation behind the interface
>> MgCoordinateSystemGeodeticTransformation was reworked to handle  
>> backward
>> compatibility while still enabling the new functionality exposed  
>> through the
>> new interfaces.
>>
>> The submission 5164 "Merging the sandbox RFC94 to the trunk" lists  
>> all the
>> source that was involved in this work:
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/changeset/5164
>> As said above, the code was originally inside the sandbox
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/sandbox/rfc94/
>> This shows the amount of work executed by Andre, 38 new source code  
>> files
>> and 33 modified existing files listed at the URL mentioned above.
>>
>> Another example of a code submissions performed by Norm Olsen and  
>> written by
>> Andre is:
>>
>> Submission 5241 "adding Useful Range capability to the Geodetic
>> Transformation API"
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/changeset/5241
>>
>> Other recent activities on the MapGuide project, still within the  
>> coordinate
>> system engine area were:
>>
>>
>> -   Log and fix ticket 1468, Unset the EPSG code when cloning a  
>> Coordinate
>> System entity
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/1468
>>
>> -   Log and fix ticket 1463 - Access to the CsMap coordinate system
>> dictionary files is not correctly protected by the Mg API
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/1463
>>
>> As you can see all this work is centralized around the coordinate  
>> system
>> engine.
>> Working closely with Norm Olsen and Hugues Wisniewski (the Osgeo  
>> lead for
>> the CS-Map project), judging from his motivation, the high quality  
>> of his
>> work and his commitment to a job well done,  I am confident that  
>> Andre will
>> be of a great help on the MapGuide team in the future.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bruce
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