I've given everyone a couple of days to respond to my post about reactivating the Development Committee. I was disappointed that I didn't get any responses. I'm afraid the current situation is due in large part to my neglect, and the fact that I have left Stefan to carry most of the administrative load.
I am going to take a more active role in the JPP and OpenJUMP starting today. I think the project has been suffering because of a lack of coordination between the different teams developing there own versions of OpenJUMP. I really think that OpenJUMP and the JUMP Pilot Project need to have an administrator that isn't directly tied to the other JUMP projects, and for the time being I will be that person. I think that most of the developers are concerned with improving and maintaining there own versions of OpenJUMP. I understand this, but hope we can all work together more in the near future. In the meantime I will be making some significant changes to OpenJUMP, mostly administrative in nature. Here is the agenda I will be working to implement in the next couple of weeks: (1) Migrating to a new wiki: Our existing wiki is somewhat cluttered, and we still have Jon Acquino hosting. I have started a new wiki for the JPP here: http://thejumppilotproject.pbwiki.com/ This wiki host is free, there is no size restriction, I can use a password mechanism to prevent spamming, and I can generate a back-up zip file of the wiki with a single mouse click. I will leave the OpenJUMP wiki up at Jon's site until use of the new wiki picks up. (2) Subversion Repository: I will be creating a Subversion repository for OpenJUMP source code at the SourceForge site. I believe the CVS repository can remain in place. However, I am using Subversion as my main source code repository for other projects, I think it has definite advantages over CVS, and I know it works well with Eclipse on both Windows and Linux operating systems. I will also be creating some standards for those developers that want to commit to the subversion repository. (3) Preventing Plug-In Chaos: I've got a link on the new wiki site for a plug-in catalog. I hope to start tracking information about plug-ins that can be used in OpenJUMP without modification, and that aren't tied to a specific "brand" of JUMP. I have heard a lot of discussion and confusion on the mailing list about raster support. One of my main development goals will be an "official" version of a raster plug-in for OpenJUMP. I also plan on creating a simple solution to the memory limit for large data files. Please remember that I am always open to changing my policies and plans when it comes to OpenJUMP and the JUMP Pilot Project. If you have concerns about my changes and want to become involved in the decision process you just have to let me know. In the meantime, I'm going to get to work. The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
