[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.10 versus 3.0

[Pierre Giraud]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:21 PM,  <christopher.schmidt at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 15, 2010, at 4:05 PM, ext Tim Schaub wrote:
>
>> I'm in favor of 3.0 (I think this is widely known) and 2.10.
>>
>> Since it sounds like we are going to have a good contingent of
>> developers in Barcelona, why don't we focus on 2.10 until then and do
>> the big planning for 3.0 then?
>>
>> Unless people really have a lot of time to dedicate to coordinated 3.0
>> development ahead of FOSS4G, I think we would benefit from discussion in
>> person about 3.0 design.
>
> Practically speaking, I think that if we do this, 3.0 will never
> get done.
>
> A lot of our good development has basically been 3-4 days of concentrated
> developer time in one place. Discussion is something I feel we really
> should be able to do in IRC meetings (or, if it would be better, I'm
> happy to set up a phone meeting for any interested parties). I think
> we'd be much more likely to actually achieve something if we could
> walk into a room and get a solid start on getting code checked into
> SVN.
>
> If we have a day of coding -- or preferably more -- with many of us
> in one place, I think there's a good chance of 3.0 actually coming
> out in a timely manner. If we don't, I think we're going to find
> ourselves in a position where we all have things we want to do for
> 3.0 that we'd never get time to do.

I think I'm in favor on having a 3.0 and starting with a "one place /
many developpers" coding.
If I remember well, a while ago, camptocamp started to think about
looking for sponsors in order to organize a code sprint week with a
focus on building a 3.0 version.

Regards,
Pierre