[Proj4j] Submit Proj4J as a joint LocationTech project?

[Martin Davis]

Great, Rob.  Thanks for offering to do all the heavy lifting!

Does anyone else have any comments (pro or con)?

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Rob Emanuele <rdemanuele at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Martin,
>
> GeoTrellis uses proj4j, but we actually took the code [1] and made some
> edits in our copied codebase because there was no maven central version. We
> copied it because we needed to make a bunch of things Serializable, and it
> seemed like the path of least resistance. It hurt my open-source feelings,
> though, to work on a forked copy and not work off of the main version, so
> I'm really happy that proj4j could move to GitHub and be a join
> OSGeo/LocationTech project so that collaboration is easier and the binaries
> can be published through LocationTech's process. I'd be happy to help out
> submitting the project, moving it to GitHub, and all the other legwork that
> it would take to get this done.
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis/tree/35a81992cd574270f64f2337623125ad8d3380eb/proj4/src/main/java/org/osgeo/proj4j
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm in the process of moving JTS to LocationTech [1], to benefit from the
>> wider exposure (and funding!) that may bring.  It''s also moving to GitHub,
>> for all the usual reasons.
>>
>> it seems like Proj4J is also a great candidate to move to GitHub, be
>> mavenized, and ultimately be submitted to LocationTech as a joint.  (The LT
>> move does not affect its status as an OSGeo project!)
>>
>> I think this will give it a lot more exposure and dev love, and will make
>> it easier for projects to use it.
>>
>> What do people think about this?
>>
>> Martin
>>
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