Hey Patrick, > 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
We're happy to be working with you, and I think you've got that "expert" title in this area well pinned down. Cheers, Chris > > > 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. >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
