I know I started this thread after having read Jody's email
but after your
responses I know now that there was a misunderstanding from
my side about
Paolo's interests and work areas.My intention when I suggested having an IRC was to discuss
about the CatalogAPI
and how backport it from uDig to Geotools, how to improve it
and such. OK, this
included my question on how to handle the metadata in
MapLayer, GeoResource
a.s.o. In the meantime it seems this discussion will largely
focus on metadata,
especially since I learned today what Paolo & Co. have
developed in this
direction (The SIS Meta Information Infrastructure).I feel that I should say clearly that advanced metadata APIs
is a topic that is
over my head and not my current focus. I am already much
deeper in GeoTools than
I intended originally. (My GeoWidgets project was supposed to
work ON TOP of
Geotools.) So, given the fact that Paolo obviously does not
care too much about
the MayLayer Architecture (what I understand) and I don't
want to care about
advanced Metadata APIs, I am not sure how much an IRC will
bring. But if there
are enough people interested in metadata, as I can imagine,
just do the IRC
session anyway. (Tuesday or Wednesday preferred for me.) OK?
I think the same as Matthias, we're focusing on different aspects.
Regarding an IRC about metadata, I'm not sure if it would be useful
at this stage. I feel each one has not enough comprehension of
others needs and code, so it may be diffucult to discuss.
But if others think it may prove valuable, next Tuesday or Wednesday
from 9:00 to 16:00 UTC (but we can arrange otherwise) can be ok.
Bye
Paolo Rizzi