[Geoserver-devel] proposal needed for datastore extensions?

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Hi all,

I would like to add a sqlserver extension. I have gone through the paces of making sure it meets all the requirements of an extension. But writing a proposal seems a bit like overkill... especially since we have a number of datastore extensions which don't actually meet extension criteria.

Thoughts? Can I go ahead and head without an official proposal?

-Justin

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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:

Hi all,

I would like to add a sqlserver extension. I have gone through the paces of making sure it meets all the requirements of an extension. But writing a proposal seems a bit like overkill... especially since we have a number of datastore extensions which don't actually meet extension criteria.

Thoughts? Can I go ahead and head without an official proposal?

Mumble, yeah, datastore extensions are sort of a gray area, we
are shipping with stuff like the gml datastore, I guess anything
would be better than that.

Did the procedure say to move to extension a proposal was needed?
I agree it's overkill... at the same time, we make the rules, we
should respect them.
Maybe we should lower the requirements for the procedure? A mail
to the dev list and a vote?
Cheers
Andrea

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Andrea Aime
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Did the procedure say to move to extension a proposal was needed?
I agree it's overkill... at the same time, we make the rules, we
should respect them.
Maybe we should lower the requirements for the procedure? A mail
to the dev list and a vote?

Ok, I will update the procedure. For things like data store extensions which don't really involve any geoserver code probably don't need a proposal. At least not data stores... Maybe other third party libraries... but we can handle those on a case by case basis.

Also people have the opportunity to reply to the email saying "Can you write a proposal please".

-Justin

Cheers
Andrea

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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.