[Proj4j] Submit Proj4J as a joint LocationTech project?

[Gertjan Idema]

Hi Martin,

I can see only pro's. 

Gertjan Idema

On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 14:56 -0800, Martin Davis wrote:
> Great, Rob.  Thanks for offering to do all the heavy lifting!
> 
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> Does anyone else have any comments (pro or con)?
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> 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
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>         
>         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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>                 
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