GeoTools / GeoServer Meeting 2014-01-21
Attending
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Ben Caradoc-Davies
Jukka Rahkonen
Andrea Aime
Alessio Fabiani
Jody Garnett
Agenda
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- GeoTools 11-beta / GeoServer 2.5-beta / GWC 1.5.1
- GeoTools 10.4 / GeoServer 2.4.4
- Security subsystem feedback
- Wicket upgrade
- Code sprint
- Release schedule
- Locationtech
- New rasteriser
GeoTools 11-beta / GeoServer 2.5-beta / GWC 1.5.1 + GeoTools 10.4 / GeoServer 2.4.4
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http://blog.geoserver.org/2014/01/21/geoserver-2-5-beta-released/
http://geotoolsnews.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/geotools-11-beta-released.html
- Thanks, Andrea!
- Master locked down for a month or so.
- Jody volunteered to do the next RC:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoTools+and+GeoServer+release+schedule
- Still looking for a volunteer for 2.4.5.
Security subsystem feedback
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- Jody and Ben sharing experiences.
Ben's gripes (Puppet auto deployment):
- Security documentation sorely lacking.
- No RESTful API for security.
- File format documentation out of date.
Wicket upgrade
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- Old version broken with modern browsers.
- They are now up to version 6, we are on 1.4.
Code sprint
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- Code sprint? Perhaps weekend before foss4g
Release schedule
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- Andrea's proposal: Release Schedule V2 (with PDF)
- one development branch, two stable (stable and LTS) with alternating releases
Locationtech
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- Jody looking at IP tickets, problems, early morning Thurday meeting
- vecmath problems
- other examples, removing classes
New rasteriser
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- Andrea helping others work on a new rasteriser to replace Oracle closed source version.
- Removes scalability issues.
- Replaces part of JDK without having to install custom JDK, using -Xbootclasspath
- Without having to wait for Oracle.
- Andrea helped by doing the scalability testing and use of -Xbootclasspath
- Jody: please give a presentation
- Back in the game for performance shootouts.
- Andrea: almost doubled peak performance (FOSS4G 2010 benchmarks)
- Ben: beautiful IGN map from a few weeks ago?
- Andrea: IGN would not give data but offered a blog post; they used a large array of SLDs, labels placed with long computations using proprietary preprocessing tools, GeoServer for coarse labelling
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre