[OpenLayers-Users] Error in markers location on zooming

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:58:07PM +0200, david delannoy wrote:
> I see that my email has been taken very agressively. I 'm sorry cause 
> that was not my first intention. 

I appreciate you saying so. I wasn't particularly upset by it, but I do
want to make clear that most of the support that I and others offer on
this mailing list is offered on our own time, and there are damn few of
us compared to the number of users. For example, there are 306 users on
the 'users' mailing list -- only 39 people have ever requested a
password for trac/wiki, only 21 users have ever asked for commit access
of any kind, and we only have 7 core committers. 

You can imagine that with 10 users for every 'helper', full support is at
best difficult. Luckily, we have a very active community, so eve users
who have never committed a line of code or filed a bug report are often
able to help. At the same time, it's a big (and growing) project, so
sometimes things get lost in the shuffle.

> Like most people on this list, I'm 
> trying to do my best to understand the code. When I encounter a problem, 
> I try first to solve it myself :  I went into the source code but I'm 
> not an expert in Javascript developpement and this code is not easy to 
> understand. 

I think I find it easier to understand than any other Javascript I've
read -- however, I'd obviously think that, since I wrote it :) I do know
that if you have problems that you're spending time (where time is
money) on solving, you can probably seek out help from the list. A
number of our developers are great at helping out when you work with
them: I highly recommend to anyone (and not just you) that if they're
going to work on OpenLayers stuff full time, they strongly consider
working with an existing developer on creating a support contract. 

http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_TECH%5B%5D=00038 is a
wonderful utility listing those people who work on OpenLayers as service
providers: Although paying someone every time doesn't help, sometimes
having that as a resource is extremely useful.

> If I don't find the solution, I ask to the communauty; and 
> that's what I did. I really appreciate what you have done with 
> Openlayers; that's a real plus for the developpers and users 
> communities. You're right, I should be more patient and I'm sorry for 
> that...This is just that I worked hardly yerterday evening to find a 
> solution; anyway, that's not an excuse.

Not an excuse, perhaps, but it's understandable. We all have those days.
I know that I'm no better about many of the emails I send. The important
thing is that we all work on helping each other out where possible.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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