[Live-demo] Retire MapTiler?

[Cameron Shorter]

Alex, comment from the maintainer ...

On 22/07/2013 4:22 PM, wrote:
> Dear Cameron,
>
> I think it is time to gracefully retiring the MapTiler 1.0 beta2 open 
> source version and removing it from the OSGEO LiveDVD.
>
> Thank you and the whole LiveDVD team for support and all the effort 
> you put into this project. I hope we can work together in future on 
> other projects.
>
> P.S.
> The MapTiler is popular and used by thousands of people world wide, it 
> seems to be successful as a product in it's new version, but it failed 
> as an open-source project. It looks like it is easier for our users to 
> pay a few USD for the software, then to contribute with a source code 
> or help others on the forums.


On 25/07/2013 7:09 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> I agree, if Hamish is willing to upkeep the project we should keep it.
> My students found it to be the easiest tiling solution on the disk. I
> don't see it really being all that different from the mbtiles output of
> Tilemill in context/purpose.
>
> Were there other more specific reasons provided by the previous maintainer.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 07/22/2013 06:11 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote:
>> 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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