FOSS4G 2011 Code Sprint/MapServer
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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
- 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?