Hi, Jody!
Thanks for your answer.
I hold this community in the highest regard and I did not wish to
convey any negative idea about it. I apologize if I did that
The idea of the community modules is great and I fully understand
the support limitations regarding these. I also understand the
limitations of community support versus paid consulting even for
supported modules. You are one of the people I think it is not fair to
ask more of, you already do a lot. I have spoken to my management and my
team that we intend to hire external support for our foss4g stack if and
when our service scales.
I tried to give the list participants a small nudge to reply to the
questions. The other alternative I thought of for the answers to catch
up with the questions was to encourage people to spend at least an hour
trying to solve the problem before e-mailing the list (which I did).
That would, however, probably go the other way around. I wouldn't feel
very welcome if someone asked me that.
Thanks for the pointers on where to get the information. I checked
the github page and found the main committers to the jdbcconfig module.
pom.xml does not list maintainers, but has a lot of committers.
Best,
Daniel
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Em 11/07/2016 18:32, Jody Garnett escreveu:
The jdbconfig module was mentioned as a community module in the
release notes. It is especially difficult to ask for
assistance/support on community modules where the work is not being
released as part of GeoServer. We set up the "community module" idea
to encourage students and companies to share their work in progress,
experiments and features to encourage collaboration. Not every group
is in position to meet the quality assurance and documentation
requirements to have their work included in GeoServer.
If you are interested in any of the projects here
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/src/community you
may wish to check if the work is actively maintained:
- if the community module is not actively maintained ask on the email
list if there is anyone else working on the functionality - perhaps
you can combine forces? The developer responsible may need
encouragement/assistance or a contract to complete the work to meet
the documentation and quality assurance requirements for the Project.
We have to be careful in the GeoServer community not to take on
functionality that is unsupported and unmaintainable.
- If the community module is actively maintained review the pom.xml
file to determine who is taking care of it, many of these individuals
are listed on our commercial support page
I do understand that community modules are frustrating, the promise of
functionality that is *just* out of reach. We find this less
frustrating then helping developers (sometimes for months) complete
features that we never get to see. At least this way we have access to
the source code and can build on their work (either directly by
completing the functionality, or indirectly by using the work as an
example/inspiration).
--
Jody Garnett
On 8 July 2016 at 04:54, Daniel Araujo Miranda <miranda.dam@anonymised.com
<mailto:miranda.dam@anonymised.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone!
In the short time I have participated in this list I have got the
impression that the rate of questions asked in this list somewhat
exceeds the rate of questions answered.
It is not fair to ask more of the developers or the other
geoserver
volunteers, so if you know the answer to mine or any other question,
please chime in.
Thanks to all, this is a great community around a great project.
--Daniel
Em 05/07/2016 13:08, Daniel Araujo Miranda escreveu:
> Hi, everyone.
> I am trying to download the JDBCConfig module for
installation in
> my new geoserver 2.9 server, and I cannot find the file for
download.
>
> Here is what I tried:
> -Read the docs at
>
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/community/jdbcconfig/installing.html
> -Went to http://geoserver.org/release/stable/ and clicked on
> "extensions", and searched for the
> geoserver-2.9.0-jdbcconfig-plugin.zip. That seemed to me to be
the right
> place, because there were zipfiles with the names of a lot of other
> extensions.
> -Did the same above for geoserver 2.8.4, found a lot of
extensions, but
> not this one.
> -Searched again for the related module JDBCStore, also could not
find it.
> -Googled for geoserver-2.9.0-jdbcconfig-plugin.zip with no success
> -Checked the release notes for geoserver 2.9.0 at
> http://blog.geoserver.org/2016/05/30/geoserver-2-9-0-released/
> and found a mention of the JDBCConfig module under "Resource REST
> API", which leads me to believe that it is currently supported.
> -Found the source at
>
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/src/community/jdbcconfig
> and tried to compile Geoserver from source (although that was
also
> motivated by a specific LDAP need of mine). Compiling from
source proved
> to be too much right now, I am not familiar with the codebase and
> haven't programmed in java for a long time. I would like to keep
> everything stock to make maintenance easier and documentation
shorter.
>
> Should the zipfile be available at the locations I looked?
> Is that module current (I take it that it is since the latest
commit was
> 15 days ago)?
> Is it necessary to compile the module from source?
>
> I apologize if I have missed something obvious. Please point me
in the
> right direction.
>
> Best,
> Daniel Miranda
>
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