[MetaCRS] Proj4J Status

[Nicholas Knize]

+1 for a MetaCRS "organization"

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have no problem with projects moving to github when the projects want
> to.
>
> In the case of Proj4J it seems like a MetaCRS "organization" might be
> desirable to represent the way the project governance is setup now -
> similar to the shared commiter list on svn for MetaCRS sub-projects.
>
> In this case if Martin is favorable, I'd suggest he raise a motion MetaCRS
> about the formal migration of the master repo for Proj4J.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Nicholas Knize <nknize at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As much control as you want.  Proj4js (http://trac.osgeo.org/proj4js/)
>> is already on GitHub so there's precedence.  You can also have a look at
>> our Elasticsearch github for an example of tighter control over community
>> submitted PRs (see:
>> https://github.com/karmi/test-contributor-agreement/pull/21)
>>
>> I created a Proj4J organization (https://github.com/Proj4J) to manage
>> permissions and membership of the code base. I can transfer ownership of
>> that organization (and reduce my level to member) at anytime if this is a
>> route the community is interested in taking.
>>
>> IMHO there will be more community involvement with GitHub and could
>> breathe some life back into the codebase.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure what the feeling is at OSGeo about moving away from their
>>> hosted SVN.  Can anyone comment on this?
>>>
>>> How do commit rights to the GitHub repo work?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Nicholas Knize <nknize at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any opposition to moving from svn to github?  I've started it here
>>>> <https://github.com/Proj4J/proj4j> and preserved history and branches.
>>>> I'm thinking it will breathe new collaborative life into the codebase. The
>>>> repos could always be synced but experience says that's a maintenance PITA.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Not dead, just moving very slooowly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feel free to submit patches if you see something that needs to be
>>>>> addressed.  (I know there are some bug fixes in PROJ.4 that could be ported
>>>>> over...)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Nicholas Knize <nknize at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I noticed there hasn't been a commit in 14 months. Is this project
>>>>>> still maintained? I recently migrated the svn codebase to git with git svn.
>>>>>> Since I'm not the project owner I don't want to step on any toes, but I see
>>>>>> more collaboration on Github than svn.  Just checking to see what the state
>>>>>> is on this project and what the recommendation is for continuing to move
>>>>>> this forward.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Nick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> MetaCRS mailing list
>>>>>> MetaCRS at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/metacrs
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> MetaCRS mailing list
>> MetaCRS at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/metacrs
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
> warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/metacrs/attachments/20150107/350fce41/attachment-0001.html>