Re: [Gwt-openlayers-devl] SF VCS support

[Farrukh N. <fa...@we...>]

Thats great news. I am always delighted by SF's responsiveness.

BTW guys, I am unavailable for helping out for a few days due to a 
family commitment.
If there is anything left for Hg migration when I'm back, then I will be 
glad to help. Thanks.

Edwin Commandeur wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> That is very good news! I would favor Hg over Git, given that Hg is 
> more widespread in the Java ecosystem (being used for openJDK and 
> openSolaris), whereas Git is more widespread in the Linux ecosystem. 
> Since GWT is in the Java ecosystem, I see a more natural fit with 
> Mercurial.
>
> My choice for Hg would thus be mostly political. All three, Git, Hg 
> and Bazaar are in use for large projects, so I guess they are all 
> three quite mature. For Git and Hg I understand the tool support is 
> good on Linux as well as Windows.
>
> My suggestion would still be to proceed as follows:
> a) keep enhancing GWT-OpenLayers 0.4 snapshot until mid april (please 
> help out with bringing up new milestone issues and solving existing 
> milestone ones).
> b) change package name from com.eg.gwt.openLayers to 
> org.gwtxxx.openlayers or org.xxx.gwtopenlayers (where xxx is to be 
> determined)
> c) migrate to Hg or Git
> d) release GWT-OpenLayers 0.4-rc1 in mid april
> e) release GWT-OpenLayers 0.4
>
> That way we can all play around with Git and Hg, and hold a final poll 
> before mid april about which distributed VCS and which package name to 
> choose.
>
> Is everybody ok with moving the version number of GWT-OpenLayers from 
> 0.3.1-SNAPSHOT to 0.4-SNAPSHOT and working towared 0.4-rc1 in april?
>
> The path as I see it in terms of GWT-OpenLayers versions would be:
> 0.4-SNAPSHOT -> 0.4-rc1 -> 0.4 -> 0.5-SNAPSHOT -> 0.5-rc1 -> 0.5 -> 
> 1.0-SNAPSHOT
>
> OpenLayers 2.8 is already at 72% completion of the tickets for that 
> release.
>
> In terms of functionality supported I see it as follows:
> 0.4:  GWT-OpenLayers 0.4 supports much of 2.7.
> 0.5:  It would be nice if we could get GWT-OpenLayers 0.5 to support 
> all functionality of 2.7 that does not duplicate GWT functionality 
> (such as XML support), with the exception of certain layer types and 
> some of OpenLayers 2.8
> 1.0:  GWT-OpenLayers 1.0 should catch up with OpenLayers 2.8 (assuming 
> that 2.8 will be released before GWT-OpenLayers 1.0)
>
> With respect to different layers that GWT-OpenLayers supports it would 
> be nice if we have people under the developers or testers that 
> actually use that layers, so they can give feedback from using it in 
> practice. I mostly use WMS and Vector layers, but I am very happy that 
> support for Google and OSM are in. Other layers that are high on my 
> list to support are: WorldWind, Mapserver, and WFS (though I believe 
> connecting to WFS from javascript is suboptimal). Is there anybody 
> amongst us who would like to work on KaMap, MapGuide, MultiMap, 
> VirtualEarth, or Yahoo?
>
> Greetings,
> Edwin
>
>
>
> 2009/3/15 Aaron Novstrup <ano...@st... 
> <mailto:ano...@st...>>
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I was playing around on SF today and noticed Mercurial under the
>     Code menu.  I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but, sure
>     enough, SF officially supports Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar as of
>     *yesterday*:
>     http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-03-13-003-35-PR-SV.
>


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Farrukh

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