[Geotools-devel] Pushing ogr to supported status (on trunk at least)

[Andrea A. <and...@ge...>]

Hi,
following up a set of push requests and mails by Jared Erickson I would
like to propose the graduation of the OGR module to supported status,
with me and Jared as maintainers (and Justin too, if he's interested in
taking part).

The module is currently split into 3 parts:
* core
* BridJ based native bindings
* JNI based native bindings

In order to measure code coverage I've prepared a branch in which the BridJ
bindings
are merged back into the core module, getting a coverage of 62%.

According to the guide a module needs 4 stars to become supported. Here we
go:

* Passes IP check, basically has correct headers: yes, has been fully
written by me and Justin
* Releasable - has no non blocking bugs in jira: nope, all the tickets
reported against the module are closed
* Used in anger - Used by GeoServer or uDig or Geomajas (ie some kind of
large real world datasets): sort of,
  it's being used in GeoScript and I'd like to add a GeoServer community
module for it too
* Optimised - has been tuned to meet hard performance requirements (example
shapefile): there are performance tests,
  the module works fine
* Supported - user docs, module maintainer watches user list, answers email
etc.. (example referencing): I believe both
  and and Jared would support the module

Let's make it 3 stars and two halves = 4?

About which modules to port to supported status, personally I'd go for core
and bridj bindings.
The JNI bindings were created by Justin because BridJ support was not
working on OSX, but recently
Jared fixed that. So, I believe the ability to support JNI bindings is
linked to Justin presence (Justin,
let us know).

Feedback welcomed

Cheers
Andrea



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