Re: [Geoserver-devel] road map update, May 26, 09

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

Mark Leslie ha scritto:
>  From my point of view pushing one release back a week isn't a big 
> problem, but less frequent releases might be.  One of the aspects of 
> GeoServer that makes it easy to sell to people down here is that any 
> changes or bug fixes that need to be done will be out in a stable 
> release quickly.  This means that I'm not deploying and maintaining 
> patched versions for people, and consequently billing them for the effort.

Mark,
I understand your point of view. However, I think this is a case
of a "short blanket" as we call it in Italy: you cover your feet,
your shoulders are not, and vice versa.

As OpenGeo pushes more on the 2.0 series it's normal that less work
is done on the 1.7.x series, we just don't have the resources to
work full steam on both the branches at the same time.

If you need frequent releases we can pair up and share the load,
for example, OpenGeo could make a release one month, and LisaSoft
could make one the next month. Don't underestimate the effort
thought, making a release usually takes at least one day of a core
developer and there are a few wrinkles about cite testing that
are not well explained in the release guide (e.g., we don't use the
cite tests published online since they are very old compared to
the version OGC has developed one year ago and that apparently
is still kept in svn).
But if you're interested in helping out, I'm sure we can find
the time to get you up to speed.

Cheers
Andrea

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