[MapProxy] Heads up - Implementing TIME support in MapProxy

[Daniel Morissette]

Hello MapProxy devs and community,

This email is a heads up that we have started to work on the 
implementation of WMS TIME dimension support in MapProxy, including 
caching and seeding of time-enabled WMS sources, and support for 
assembling WMS requests from a time-enabled tile cache.

This work is funded by the Meteorological Service of Canada and will be 
used to serve hundreds or time-enabled weather layers, A RFC (Request 
For Comments) document is underway and will be shared via this list 
soon, so that other devs and contributors can comment on the proposed 
approach to ensure that the implementation will meet the expectations of 
the project to be included in future releases. (We are also aware of 
https://github.com/mapproxy/mapproxy/pull/377 and will actually try to 
build on it)

A parallel goal of our initiative will be to set the bases to make it 
easier for new devs to join the project as contributors and to assist 
Oliver to maintain the project in the long run, inspired by the way 
other OSGeo projects work. (We had some exchanges with Oliver on this 
offlist already)

Finally, I am only the project lead here, the guys doing the bulk of the 
coding work are:

- Ariel Nunez (https://github.com/ingenieroariel)
- Denis Rykov (https://github.com/drnextgis)
- Tom Kralidis (https://github.com/tomkralidis) - Tom is also the end 
client who will be testing/validating the final results.

We should hear from them soon.

Cheers all

Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
Mapgears Inc