Actually Mark the problem with Spatial is that there hasn't been enough folks involved in it as a project. I am a single point of failure for it. So I have gone about solving that, by getting assistance from several experts in this field to help put this proposal together
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SpatialProposal <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SpatialProposal>And we should be committing very soon On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 03/13/2010 10:36 PM, patrick o'leary wrote: > >> As for this vote, I will allow our proximity to St. Patricks day to tone >> down my description of it, by describing it as shenanigans ! >> > > As long as we are talking about what committers should be working on, I > wish you'd support the spatial contrib you dumped in. I've explained the > issues with it in the past, and while you agreed about them, where is the > help! > > Field Collapsing is a biggie (I think Shalin was working at it a bit, along > with others at different times), and not an easy one to make time for, or > take responsibility for the commit - especially with so many having concerns > with its scalability - but if you help at all with spatial, I promise to > push on Field Collapsing. Its why you were made a contrib committer. I'm not > sure why you accepted if someone else could have just committed the code > load. >
