+1 to adding the category. You may have to then convince each project to add the category though depending on the precedence. ASF is a bottom up not a top down led organization.
On 9/27/2018 8:19 AM, George Percivall wrote: > +1 > > The geospatial track at ApacheCon NA 2018 yesterday was overflowing the room. > > One of the discussions was about Apache Projects include some geospatial > functionality. > > These projects were identified as having geo functionality directly in their > project: > - SIS, Calcite, Lucene, Solr, Marmotta, Open Climate Workbench, SDAP, Druid > > These projects are known to have significant geospatial extensions not part > of the core project: > - Spark (GeoSpark, GeoTrellis), Accumulo (Geowave, Geomesa), Jena / Fuseki, > UIMA (Baleen) > > Having each of these projects add geospatial as a category would facilitation > coordination. > > George > > >> On Sep 27, 2018, at 12:41 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: >> >> Martin Desruisseaux wrote on 9/26/18 10:48 PM: >>> Hello all >>> >>> Following discussions at ApacheCon this week, I propose to add a new >>> category to the following files: >>> >>> * >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/xdocs/categories.xml >>> * >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/xdocs/create.xml >>> >>> Some of current categories are "cloud", "content", "database", "mail", >>> etc. The new category would be "geospatial" for projects handling >>> geospatial information. This would parallel the existing geospatial@a.o >>> mailing list. >>> >>> Is there any objection to the addition of "geospatial" category? >> +1, make it so. Given that (one presumes) there will be several PMCs >> who specifically *want* to add this as their category in the list, it's >> an obvious and easy solution that helps projects better promote themselves. >> >> Exciting to see the geospatial track again at ApacheCon, as well as hear >> the discussions about our Apache communities doing more coordination - >> both internally and externally. >> >> -- >> >> - Shane >> ComDev PMC >> The Apache Software Foundation >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > -- Kevin A. McGrail VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
