[Mapserver-dev] Roadmap...

[Sean Gillies]

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 04:14  PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> I'll try to put a draft together in the wiki and then from there it 
>> will be easier to discuss what we like and what we don't like.
>
> I've put together a quick draft in the wiki with some of the items 
> that we are currently working on for version 4.1/4.2:
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap41Draft1
>
> Keep in mind that I just put this together as a starting point and 
> comments/suggestions/flames are welcome.  And if someone has a 
> completely different idea of what this document should look like then 
> please put something together and we can discuss.
>
> Daniel

One thing I would suggest is that we make a "road map" for MapServer 5,
and that the 4.x wiki pages would document the road to 5.
No one can really say for sure what the final MapServer 5 will be, 
especially
since development (rightly) depends on what users need tomorrow, but 
there are
some good goals we could set such as: thread safety, map objects 
instantiated
from map config fragments, implementation of property acquisition in 
the object
"tree" (classes acquire properties from their layers for example), etc.

Daniel, I noticed that in your page you collect features in groups that 
are
quite close to the MapServer Components in Bugzilla ('Build Problems',
'Command Line Utilities', etc).  Maybe we could formalize this and put 
links
to Bugzilla from the wiki page and vice versus, and try to use Bugzilla 
and
the wiki as complementary tools.

My only disagreement is that the development-odd/stable-even revision 
numbering
is sorta pointless if we never have development releases.  IMO.

Sean
--
Sean Gillies
sgillies at frii dot com
http://www.frii.com/~sgillies