[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.10 versus 3.0

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jun 16, 2010, at 10:45 AM, ext Tim Schaub wrote:
> I think you've misinterpreted my opinion in presenting these 
> "conflicting" ideas.

(For the record, I do think these conflicted; I will state that
I'm happy to be told that no one actually is arguing "don't do
anything til we talk" :).)

> I am very excited to move forward with 3.0.  It is encouraging, Chris, 
> to see that you are not resisting the idea.  On the contrary, you are 
> actively encouraging work.  This is great to see.
> 
> A number of us have been wanting 3.0 for a long time.  I don't think any 
> of us have illusions about it being a trivial task.  My only hope is 
> that we aren't hasty about making minor changes (deleting MouseToolbar 
> et al.) and then calling it done at FOSS4G because we fear that it is 
> never going to get done otherwise.

Gotcha. That makes more sense. I don't disagree on that; I think the 
reason to do the 'easy' stuff is to get it out of the way; I think we're
going to need to discuss before FOSS4G to be effective; working in the
same room is important when working on the code, but i think that a lot
of the core things to fix -- like fixing moveTo, changing LonLat/Point,etc.
around to be more friendly to users, and so on, can all be things we can
get together on before we actually start coding.

> I'm totally in favor of branching, working collectively, and planning 
> starting now.  I'm also very much in favor of working as much as we can 
> together during the conference.  At the conference, I also look forward 
> to talking about the bigger changes that will benefit from face to face 
> meeting.  And, yes, I'd like to also work on these bigger changes there too.

Yeah. Historically, if we get 20% of the way into a feature at a f2f, we'll
get it into a release. If we don't get that far, it'll stay on the "TODO"
forever. I want to avoid that.

> I'm sure Andreas will want to be involved after he returns on the 25th 
> of this month.  I'll start a separate thread looking for a time that 
> works for others to meet.

Sounds good.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia