FOSS4G 2011 Code Sprint/MapServer

MaspServer FOSS4G 2011 Sprint

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

Meeting Notes

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• 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?