FOSS4G 2011 Code Sprint/MapServer

MaspServer FOSS4G 2011 Sprint -

The following notes were taken from a MapServer meeting during the FOSS4G 2011 Code Sprint.



Meeting Notes -


 * Roger André joins docs


 * Color Ramping
 * docs will be done in trunk by Roger
 * issue with legends
 * caveat at top of doc... experimental feature


 * FrankW: Projection AUTO
 * clarify RFC


 * DUMP TRUE no longer required in 6.0 for WFS/WCS
 * doc issue ... obsolete since we have ows_enable_request metadata


 * Vector Field
 * RFC


 * Text spacing
 * Phil Anzel will file ticket
 * Thomas to look into it


 * Mike's DBINCLUDE plan
 * use cases
 * Mike to draft RFC
 * http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-74.html


 * INSPIRE RFC
 * Stephan to present his RFC to accelerate process
 * http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-75.html
 * agreement in principle to move forward


 * OWS Dispatch cleanup
 * ready to go forward (ticket)


 * WCS GML raster output format
 * required by the OGC test suite
 * look into adding GDAL GML raster driver


 * MapServer-utils ... move to trunk
 * utils/ directory
 * sub-directory for this tool


 * .map -> .xml conversion


 * CSS map definition
 * summit at Google (Josh Livni)
 * Frank to try to attend...
 * use STYLES doc as base for discussion in the working group
 * approach: converter from CSS to mapfile


 * TinyOWS integration in source tree
 * Olivier to do it after 1.0 release ... end of september
 * next step


 * Docs of two new projects (MapCache + TinyOWS)
 * Jeff to look into structure -> trunk


 * SQL docs notes
 * clarify for each driver how much native SQL stuff pushed to DB server
 * Phil to draft something


 * 6.2 release = suite???
 * never officially agreed... consensus
 * When??? Aim for feature freeze around Feb Sprint
 * TODO: Daniel to write motion to list???
 * requires reasonable level of docs for 2 new components
 * TODO: Daniel to document new release numbering mechanism (for suite only or for all modules?)


 * Comments:
 * release planning slip... will this continue to happen? Hard for users to plan... move to 1 year release cycle?
 * funding for relase sprint? (help support devs travel + time)
 * project sponsorship to support sprint?