[Live-demo] Retire MapTiler?

[Stefan Steiniger]

Hi,

I actually support Hamish - if he is willing to do the "little" effort, 
as he says. Because usefullness and matureness is important too. How big 
its user commmunity is? who knows...

stefan

Am 22.07.13 20:35, schrieb Cameron Shorter:
> I'd like to hear thoughts on whether we should be retiring MapTiler.
>
> My thoughts are that we should be helping new users find established
> Open Source projects, which typically are projects which have a strong
> community behind them.
> I note that MapTiler hasn't changed version number since OSGeo-Live 3.0,
> and is still reported as a beta status.
>
> I also note from the Ohloh metrics, there seems to be very little
> development:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html
>
> I suspect that users might be moving to another project instead? Eg:
> GeoWebCache?
>
> On 23/07/2013 8:28 AM, OSGeo wrote:
>> #1167: Retire MapTiler
>> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>>
>>   Reporter:  camerons  |       Owner:  live-demo@…
>>       Type:  task      |      Status:  new
>>   Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive7.0
>> Component:  LiveDVD   |    Keywords:  maptiler
>> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>>
>>   As per request from Klokan Petr Pridal, the MapTiler point of
>> contact, we
>>   should retire MapTiler.
>>
>>   Of note, MapTiler has remained at version 1.0beta2 for a few years now
>>   (since OSGeo-Live 3.0), which suggests a diminishing open source
>> community
>>   behind the project.
>>
>>   Todo:
>>   * Update maptiler Project Overview and Quickstart to retired status in
>>   main docs.
>>
>>   * comment out install_maptiler.sh from main.sh installers
>>
>>   * comment out maptiler from metrics.rst docs
>
> On 23/07/2013 9:03 AM, OSGeo wrote:
>> #1167: Retire MapTiler
>>
>>
>> Comment(by hamish):
>>
>>   I find the MapTiler program to be still useful and relevant, and
>> would by
>>   willing to maintain it on the live dvd on an ongoing basis. (it's
>> tiny and
>>   zero maintenance anyway so I don't mind much)
>>
>>   Since it just works, it doesn't matter that there hasn't been a new
>>   version in ages.
>>   It just means it is mature; the GDAL backend it uses regularly
>> updated so
>>   it "gets updates" that way.
>>
>>
>>   regards,
>>   Hamish
>>
>
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