FOSS4G 2011 Code Sprint/MapServer

MaspServer FOSS4G 2011 Sprint

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Brainstorming

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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
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- DUMP TRUE no longer required in 6.0 for WFS/WCS

  ... doc issue ... obsolete since we have ows_enable_request metadata
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- Vector Field

 ... RFC

- Text spacing

  ... Phil Anzel will file ticket
  ... Thomas to look into it

- Mike DBINCLUDE

  ... use cases
  ... Mike to draft RFC

- INSPIRE RFC

  ... Stephan to present his RFC to accelerate process
  ... 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?