[postgis-devel] Tickets

[Paragon Corporation]

Paul,
As long as you don't close out my favorite ones.  I can only see my dreams
shattered :) 

Thanks,
Regina

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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Ramsey
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:55 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: [postgis-devel] Tickets

Trying to clean down the tickets so we can get to a release state for
1.4.1 and 1.5.0 I'm struck my how many I'm just going to have to push out to
the next version. And the next. And the next.

There is a category of things that are "nice to have" that everyone agrees
are "nice to have" but yet never rise to the threshold of someone actually
*doing* them, and that list of things only grows and grows and grows.

Kevins PIP enhancement http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/75
Support for anonymous geometry collections in predicates
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/256

Both of these I examined and thought about the amount of new code and code
complexity cost was involved versus the amount of new functionality, and put
them aside again. And I'm the one most able to do those tickets, in terms of
experience with those bits. So are they going to get done? Do we have the
bloody-mindedness to drown the kittens we don't want to keep?

I don't want to end up like Mapserver, with several hundred unclosed
tickets, being punted along year after year. I think if an enhancement
doesn't get done in two years, it should be closed out. There's a threshold
for defects probably too, though much higher.

P.
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