Hi,
GIPS 42 has been approved with 4 positive votes and two abstained:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GSIP+42+-+Official+testing+team
We'll see how it plays out with the next releases (we have resources
to back a 1.7.7 release on Oct 15, it seems we still miss someone
to do a RC2 one).
Roadmap wise I guess it's time to turn the discussions we had
into a GSIP so that we can formalize it and move on
I'll blog about the testing team one tomorrow.
Cheers
Andrea
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