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From: Edwin C. <com...@gm...> - 2009-03-12 00:20:59
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Hi all, Over the past few days I created a new Tracker on the GWT-OpenLayers plugin website called 'Milestone issues'. The intention behind this tracker is to assign issues to versions of GWT-OpenLayers. I saw that Curtis already commented on issues I added to the tracker. Thanks for that Curtis and great that you implemented the Framed Cloud and helped out on the KML! Issues can only be added to the Tracker 'Milestone issues' by developers. That way the milestone issues won't get clogged with non- issues. users can submit bugs and feature requests in the public Trackers, and we can evaluate these issues, categorize them and then decide whether and how to add these to the Milestone issues. The categories I have for the Milestone issues are now: -Functionality -Documentation -General -Showcase For milestone issues regarding functionality it would be convenient if the functionality is at a detailed level (about 1 OpenLayers classs) and if it is prefaced with the OL category, for example: Format:WMC read/write, Format:GML read/write, Control:DragFeature Please submit any of the features that you want to have in OpenLayers 0.4 first release candidate, so we can work towards a new release of GWT-OpenLayers. My suggestion is to compile a list of features that we want to wrap (or maybe extend upon) in GWT-OpenLayers, see what can be achieved on reasonable timescale and implement that. Just before releasing GWT-OpenLayers 0.4 rc1 we could do a rename of the package (see Milestone issues>General) and possible move to a new VCS. I saw that Mapbuilder (now end-of-life) shipped with OpenLayers already included, so it is probably legally possible to ship OpenLayers with GWT-OpenLayers and maybe it is desirable for us to do this with 0.4 rc1. The GWT-OpenLayers module xml could reference the script (just as it does with the util script). Another thing I have been looking into is testcases. With GWT 1.5 it is possible to have a TestSuite which can invoke a whole range of GWTTestCase testcases. Next to the package name, VCS, and OpenLayers inclusion, I think it's wise to decide if GWT-OpenLayers shoulde remain GWT 1.4 compatible or that we want to upgrade to 1.5 opening up possibilitys for using Enums and Generics. With respect to documentation I feel that most documentation should be on the wiki provided by SF and the website can provide links to that wiki. Concluding things, I would appreciate it if people started filling the milestone issues tracker, so we can work towards a new release of GWT-OpenLayers. I was thinking to strive for a new release in april, because the trunk already includes a lot of functionality up and above the 0.2 release (thanks again Erdem for 0.2!). The reason to go for 0.4 and skip 0.3 is to reflect that we really moved forward. Personally I like official releases to be x.y and not x.y.z or x.y.z.a, how about you? Greetings, Edwin Commandeur P.S. Gev, I finally found out that OpenStreetMap provides a js file alongside OpenLayers at " http://openstreetmap.org/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js". If this is not just used under water by OpenLayers but contains additionaly functionality, then it is interesting to wrap. |