[postgis-users] The first release of the PostGIS Add-ons is out!

[Pierre Racine]

Thanks Stephen for these suggestions,

> Rather than try to be the aggregator of the code submissions, we decided
> to become an index for them. We created a wiki page that would allow
> people to place a short description of what they provide and a link to
> github gist or project.

So they are not integrated into the main package? That the point of the Add-ons: To integrate all of them into a single, simple to install and document file.

> This puts more of the responsibility of the submitter to document and
> maintain the submission because it is theirs and reflects on them, but
> has the advantage to the community that it is easy to find the links
> that are relevant to the pgRouting community. It also has the advantage
> that we only need to maintain the index and that issues and problems get
> reported directly to the submitter rather than to us because we are
> hosting it.
> 
> A different approach but you might find it advantageous to migrate to
> something loser to this model for what you are trying to provide.

One thing that make those Add-ons a bit different I think is that all the provided functions should not really be related to each other. They should hence come little by little, so easier to integrate, and there will be no need for a whole consistent documentation. If someone want to release a specialized set of function (like pgRouting) then should think about developing their own extensions as you did.

I think (I might be wrong) progressively integrating new functions as GitHub pull requests should not be too much work. I will try to enforce the rules I provide at the beginning of the file before accepting any submission.

Pierre