Justin Deoliveira wrote:
Given the release date is this Monday showing up a couple days before hand with a proposal is less than ideal, but a start 
Well, let's get voting and get it done.
You do have an opportunity to negotiate release dates by taking part in the weekly road map discussion.
These are held at 00:00 or 01:00 my local time. I cannot attend. It would be useful if discussions on the geoserver-devel mailing list were taken into consideration by those who are able to attend.
I want to stress that the whole point of this discussion is to have people step up and make sure their interests are reflected in the short term road map.
A collection of Jira dumps is pretty unreadable.
There are also no jira issues that reflect anything app-schema related on the roadmap for beta2.
I did not understand that one was required. I have added one. It took several attempts to get it to show up. Hint: only fix version matters.
So if sticking strictly to the road map process app-schema would not make it into this release. I suggest you take part in the road map update and try to negotiate the release date. I for one would be fine with pushing it back if it meant app-schema is included. You should also make sure you have jira items on the road map.
App-schema, and community schemas before it, has been on the 2.0 roadmap for ages:
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Roadmap+Ideas
We also agreed to include it in 2.0_beta2.
Part of the problem is that all of app-schema main is in GeoTools, so any issues will not show up in any GeoServer Jira plugin. Working around this is very cumbersome.
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