[MetaCRS] Proj4J Status

[Nicholas Knize]

+1

I'd also like to petition the PSC to be added to the Proj4J committer team
to help keep the contribution active.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
wrote:

> Nicholas,
>
> OK, it seems we can have teams within the osgeo organization, so I'd
> suggest we locate proj4j under osgeo, and setup a MetaCRS team with the
> same commiters as in the svn group.  If Martin is supportive, then I
> believe we should make a motion to migrate Proj4J to github.com from svn
> within the OSGeo organization and with a "MetaCRS" committer team.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Nicholas Knize <nknize at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Quick bump. There's already a MetaCRS organization on github.  (Looks
>> like a zombie unrelated to osgeo, but its taken nevertheless)  There's also
>> an osgeo Organization on GitHub (https://github.com/osgeo).  I'm
>> assuming Frank knows about it since gdal is top the project list.  Any
>> thoughts on migrating the Proj4j github mirror I created to the osgeo
>> organization?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Nicholas Knize <nknize at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +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
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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> 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
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