GeoServer/GeoTools meeting September 3rd 2012
Participants
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Andrea Aime
Alessio Fabiani
Ben Caradoc-Davies
Jody Garnett
Jukka Rahkonen
Justin Deoliveira
Agenda
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- New PSC members presentation
- Release Issues
- 2.2.0-final?
- GeoTools 8.1
- uDig 1.3.2
- CSW status
New PSC members presentation
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Jukka - yay!
GIS for 17 years, for 10 years commercial sw, last 7y mapserver and geoserver, gdal, desktop gis too
Before GIS era worked as a researcher - Agricultural engineering, especially non-chemical weed control.
Phil Scadden
Heavy SDE user, man on the dateline!
Works for GNS Science (a geoscience research institution) in New Zealand
http://www.gns.cri.nz/
Phil's Sunshine Map of Dunedin:
http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/News-and-Events/Media-Releases/Sunshine-hours-software
ACTION: Ben to update PSC list
Release issues
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- PDF docs not avaialble? Latex/Fonts missing
Action:
- JD: check on PDF docs
GeoTools Hack and Slash
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unsupported modules:
shapefile-renderer -> bye bye
shapefile-ng (replace shapfile on master)
postgis-versioned -> bye bye (and WFS-V as well)
API churn:
- remove feature collection methods
gt-wps module:
- Jody is interested
gt-tile
- bring it back?
QGIS SLD support
- Jody was after natural eath, our SLD 1.1 is working and I cleaned up the rest
- Raster symbolizer replacement for colormap
- funding 
Michael grid stuff too, someone have a look at it please
2.2.0-final and release schedule
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2.2.0 in two weeks? Go for it unless there is any new blocker
Release schedule table in confluence, PSC ensures the list is populated and followed
Q: Where to find beta testers? GeoServer testing team did not fly 
Action item:
- create the table in confluence AA
- figure out different branch strategy for releases, try out the branch, commit, push, tag, kill branch approach JD
GeoTools 8.1
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Balance between -Dall (used by downstream apps) vs what has passed QA.
Action:
- Jody to deploy remaining -Dall 8.1 GeoTools modules
- Jody download from source forge and try a local build
- Jody to do the release anouncement (jira check)
uDig 1.3.2
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Good to go, 8.1 release, docs migrated to sphinx
CSW status
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Trade off betten list of objects vs feature.
Probably sticking to features
Filter is known to work with both (via property accessors).
Initial implementation similar in spirt to property datastore (ie plain text).
Performance not covered - with funding consider solution (hsql or postgres etc...).
Scope check:
- Harvest? not in scope
- Transaction? not in scope
Next meeting: Monday 17 September 2012, 13:00 UTC
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre