I would like to thank all those who helped get app-schema into GeoServer 2.0-beta2. Some individuals merit special mention:
Thanks to Justin Deoliveira, who helped debug Hudson failures, walked me through the release process, helped me the kinks out of the new app-schema extension, and did the heavy lifting of making the release. Thanks also to Andrea Aime for scrutiny of app-schema behaviour, which among other things encouraged me to bring its logging behaviour up to standard.
Major contributions were made by the heroic efforts of Gabriel Roldán (the originator of app-schema), who in the last few days submitted significant performance and memory optimisations for app-schema XSD and type handling, and my colleague Rini Angreani, who refactored the unit tests to similarly improve performance. Without these changes, which were made at very short notice, we would not have been able to get app-schema to build on Hudson (both GeoTools and GeoServer use 256M heap).
The huge amount of support we are getting from the community is very encouraging, and gives me confidence that app-schema has a bright future.
Kind regards,
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia
Thanks for sending this email Ben. Not nearly often enough does recognition go around for these types of efforts. I think I can speak for the wider geoserver community when I say we are just glad that the app-schema/complex features work is finally coming home and is part of the geoserver core. Many of us have put a lot of hours into this effort, and it is finally becoming a reality.
And at the end of the day most of the thanks should go to you in overseeing the implementation and making this happen.
Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
I would like to thank all those who helped get app-schema into GeoServer 2.0-beta2. Some individuals merit special mention:
Thanks to Justin Deoliveira, who helped debug Hudson failures, walked me through the release process, helped me the kinks out of the new app-schema extension, and did the heavy lifting of making the release. Thanks also to Andrea Aime for scrutiny of app-schema behaviour, which among other things encouraged me to bring its logging behaviour up to standard.
Major contributions were made by the heroic efforts of Gabriel Roldán (the originator of app-schema), who in the last few days submitted significant performance and memory optimisations for app-schema XSD and type handling, and my colleague Rini Angreani, who refactored the unit tests to similarly improve performance. Without these changes, which were made at very short notice, we would not have been able to get app-schema to build on Hudson (both GeoTools and GeoServer use 256M heap).
The huge amount of support we are getting from the community is very encouraging, and gives me confidence that app-schema has a bright future.
Kind regards,
--
Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
Many of us have put a lot of hours into this effort, and it is finally becoming a reality.
I only named those who have participated in the most recent step. Notable omissions are Jody Garnett and Rob Atkinson, who have fostered this effort in the long term, and without whom none of this would exist.
And at the end of the day most of the thanks should go to you in overseeing the implementation and making this happen.
I am only the most recent maintainer - as you are for org.geotools.xml.Encoder - and am thus not entirely to blame.
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia
I will point out Ben that as we will be entering into a really
interesting "cusp" for the application schema work now. As an official
GeoServer extension all those who saw the road show can now try it out
- and ask questions
Please keep this in mind when you think about your time over the next
couple of months (I am also hoping that a volley of questions will
steer you around to writing blog posts ). Have you considered
writing an article for Position magazine or anything?
All the best,
Jody
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ben
Caradoc-Davies<Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com> wrote:
Justin Deoliveira wrote:
Many of us have put a lot of hours into this effort, and it is finally
becoming a reality.
I only named those who have participated in the most recent step. Notable
omissions are Jody Garnett and Rob Atkinson, who have fostered this effort
in the long term, and without whom none of this would exist.
And at the end of the day most of the thanks should go to you in
overseeing the implementation and making this happen.
I am only the most recent maintainer - as you are for
org.geotools.xml.Encoder - and am thus not entirely to blame.
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia
Great to hear and thanks for the hard work! I am planning to be one of those to "ask questions" and hopefully more.
IMHO "app-schema" will create many GS-opportunities within Europe where most National Mapping Agencies are busy implementing INSPIRE. This attracts an array of mainly closed source providers as bees to a honeypot. GeoNetwork, for metadata, does well in this arena. For GS here is really "land to gain" (not only app-schema but also e.g. WPS). End-users are also expecting visual tools for specifying app-schema mapping. Think this is already on the GS-roadmap, but first things first. A FLOSS (research) project that includes visual schema mapping is http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu (HALE editor).
best,
--Just van den Broecke
just@anonymised.com
www.justobjects.nl
Jody Garnett wrote:
Thanks all around (and amazing work).
I will point out Ben that as we will be entering into a really
interesting "cusp" for the application schema work now. As an official
GeoServer extension all those who saw the road show can now try it out
- and ask questions
Please keep this in mind when you think about your time over the next
couple of months (I am also hoping that a volley of questions will
steer you around to writing blog posts ). Have you considered
writing an article for Position magazine or anything?
All the best,
Jody
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ben
Caradoc-Davies<Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com> wrote:
Justin Deoliveira wrote:
Many of us have put a lot of hours into this effort, and it is finally
becoming a reality.
I only named those who have participated in the most recent step. Notable
omissions are Jody Garnett and Rob Atkinson, who have fostered this effort
in the long term, and without whom none of this would exist.
And at the end of the day most of the thanks should go to you in
overseeing the implementation and making this happen.
I am only the most recent maintainer - as you are for
org.geotools.xml.Encoder - and am thus not entirely to blame.
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia
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We are keen to set up some sample configurations matching different target communities around the world.
Ben is working with a group focused on geology; and I would *love* it it community members could collaborate on an example INSPIRE configuration.
As far as I know both WPS work and and visual configuration tool for application schema are work looking for funding. They are things we are interested in but thus far no resources are available. So if you hear of any one interested please send them on to the devel list.
The HALE editor looks interesting; seems to be under an LGPL license. I wonder if they could write a plugin to hit the REST api?
Jody
On 15/07/2009, at 5:51 PM, Just van den Broecke wrote:
Great to hear and thanks for the hard work! I am planning to be one of
those to "ask questions" and hopefully more.
IMHO "app-schema" will create many GS-opportunities within Europe where
most National Mapping Agencies are busy implementing INSPIRE. This
attracts an array of mainly closed source providers as bees to a
honeypot. GeoNetwork, for metadata, does well in this arena. For GS here
is really "land to gain" (not only app-schema but also e.g. WPS).
End-users are also expecting visual tools for specifying app-schema
mapping. Think this is already on the GS-roadmap, but first things
first. A FLOSS (research) project that includes visual schema mapping is http://www.esdi-humboldt.eu (HALE editor).
best,
--Just van den Broecke
just@anonymised.com
www.justobjects.nl
Jody Garnett wrote:
Thanks all around (and amazing work).
I will point out Ben that as we will be entering into a really
interesting "cusp" for the application schema work now. As an official
GeoServer extension all those who saw the road show can now try it out
- and ask questions
Please keep this in mind when you think about your time over the next
couple of months (I am also hoping that a volley of questions will
steer you around to writing blog posts ). Have you considered
writing an article for Position magazine or anything?
All the best,
Jody
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ben
Caradoc-Davies<Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com> wrote:
Justin Deoliveira wrote:
Many of us have put a lot of hours into this effort, and it is finally
becoming a reality.
I only named those who have participated in the most recent step. Notable
omissions are Jody Garnett and Rob Atkinson, who have fostered this effort
in the long term, and without whom none of this would exist.
And at the end of the day most of the thanks should go to you in
overseeing the implementation and making this happen.
I am only the most recent maintainer - as you are for
org.geotools.xml.Encoder - and am thus not entirely to blame.
--
Ben Caradoc-Davies <Ben.Caradoc-Davies@anonymised.com>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia
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