Thursday, December 18, 2008

Axios uDig Extensions 1.1.0 rc11

Axios uDig Extensions 1.1.0-rc11 for uDig 1.1.1 have been published.

As new features we want highlighting the following improvements in the user interface and documentation:
  • Basque Location
  • Spanish Location
To download instructions and help, please, see this document: Axios uDig Extensions

if you want to know more about this project visit the
following page: Spatial Operations and Editing Tools

Source files are available in Axios download page.

Monday, December 15, 2008

IRC Meeting Time Moved

The uDig developer dynamic is changing; and we have a new IRC time more suited to global development:
  • Victoria: 12:00 noon Thursday
  • New York: 15:00 Thursday
  • Rome: 21:00 Thursday
  • Sydney: 7:00 Friday
  • World: Check Here
For more information on the IRC Meeting (including the weekly meeting time) please view our page on Communication

Thursday, December 11, 2008

uDig IRC Logs December 12th

Agenda:
  1. what is up
  2. udig.refractions.net community site?
  3. code sprint
  4. irc meeting time
  5. nominate gdavis for PSC
Action Items:
  • Graham Davis has been accepted onto the Project Steering Committee
  • udig.refractions.net will continue to be the community website; we will update the support page to list the organizations taking part in uDig development.
  • A code sprint with the direction of getting uDig 1.2 into shape has been set for January 16th-17 (Udig round the world)
Deferred:
  • Jesse is going to think bit more about when a good IRC meeting time will be and we will talk about it on email.  Best options seem to be 9 pm CET vs 6am CET
Minuets:
(9:16:04 AM)
gdavis_: hi jody
(9:16:12 AM) jgarnett: so IRC meeting started or do we need an agenda?
(9:16:16 AM) gdavis_ is now known as gdavis__
(9:16:22 AM) gdavis__ is now known as gdavis_
(9:16:28 AM) moovida: nothing done still
(9:16:32 AM) moovida: need agenda
(9:16:33 AM) Jesse_Eichar: nope just chatting
(9:16:45 AM) jgarnett has changed the topic to: 0) what is up 1) udig.refractions.net 2) code sprint
(9:16:49 AM) jgarnett: how is that for an agenda?
(9:16:54 AM) Jesse_Eichar: sounds good
(9:17:00 AM) moovida: yep
(9:17:00 AM) mauricio: ok
(9:17:13 AM) gdavis_ is now known as gdavis__
(9:17:17 AM) Jesse_Eichar: 0) Spend 3 days on sdi-uDig codesprint
(9:17:21 AM) gdavis__ is now known as gdavis_
(9:17:33 AM) jgarnett: hrm; I do wish mr bullen was here
(9:17:42 AM) Jesse_Eichar: hbullen just timed out
(9:17:48 AM) moovida: sdi-udig sprint?
(9:17:56 AM) moovida: is all of udig now in sdi?
(9:17:59 AM) gdavis_: do we also want to setup a weekly time to meet?
(9:18:00 AM) jgarnett: he holds the the direction of the project in his hands with his net.refractions.udig.libs replacement :-(
(9:18:21 AM) jgarnett: this time seems good; I can go 1 hour earlier easily.
(9:18:23 AM) Jesse_Eichar: yeah it has been since SDI 1.3 (Think that is the version) released in september
(9:18:51 AM) jgarnett: so shall we start?
(9:18:54 AM) moovida has changed the topic to: 0) what is up 1) udig.refractions.net 2) code sprint 3) irc meeting time
(9:18:54 AM) jgarnett: 0) what is up
(9:19:18 AM) moovida: yep, Jesse was on it
(9:19:25 AM) moovida: go on Jesse
(9:19:29 AM) jgarnett: jody - switching trunk to use ID rather than URL; stuck getting a linux build environment that is not magic; wondering about eclipse 3.4.1 migration
(9:19:51 AM) Jesse_Eichar: that's all for me. I have been busy on other projects lately
(9:19:52 AM) gdavis_: gdavis: I'm working on a module to geo-reference an image onto a basemap. I have most of the tools in place and am currently working on a tool to put placemarkers on an image and basemap and then warp it to fit.
(9:19:53 AM) jgarnett: (usual drill one line each give us a clue what you are doing; save questions until after the meeting)
(9:20:25 AM) moovida: andrea - living with one leg on trunk and one still in 1.1 - working on constellation connections - jai geomorpho operations
(9:20:46 AM) jgarnett: emily_g ping?
(9:20:48 AM) emily_g: emily - thinking about how to make mapgraphics works with the tiled renderer
(9:20:59 AM) jgarnett: :-P
(9:20:59 AM) gdavis_: ooh fun :)
(9:21:08 AM) jgarnett: 1) udig.refractions.net
(9:21:44 AM) jgarnett: I would like to update the support page to list a few of the other organizations that play with udig; we have done this in the past (on our previous wiki based site) but those paragraphs were dropped when we went to the new web site.
(9:22:05 AM) jgarnett: now: http://udig.refractions.net/users/
(9:22:47 AM) jeffloun: I've baulked at this so far because it seems to directly hurt me and my company, but if everyone thinks it is necessary, then I can probably reluctantly agree.
(9:22:48 AM) jgarnett: then: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Support
(9:23:30 AM) jgarnett: question jeff? For me I am looking to balance two things ... a) showing that udig is supported around the world and is an active / open project
(9:23:37 AM) moovida: Jeff, I don't think we should force to a reluctant choice
(9:23:55 AM) jgarnett: vs showing that the udig codebase has a good commercial contact so that larger organizations have the option of setting up their own license agreement.
(9:24:03 AM) jgarnett: very similar to the line JBoss walked with Hibernate.
(9:24:22 AM) jgarnett: moovida++ correct - I want everyone to be comfortable.
(9:25:02 AM) moovida: so the choice is the wiki support page, right
(9:25:04 AM) moovida: ?
(9:25:34 AM) jeffloun: well, I'm not sure we can make a decision that everyone loves from the email exchanges I've seen?
(9:25:46 AM) jgarnett: basically I do not want mixed messages like http://www.postgis.org/ and http://postgis.refractions.net/ - it weakens the project if content is split between a community site and a corporate site
(9:26:09 AM) jgarnett: moovida if we end up with a wiki support page; the wiki will go back to being the real website
(9:26:20 AM) jgarnett: and the udig.refractions.net website will fall out of date.
(9:26:26 AM) moovida: jgarnett: you are right
(9:26:34 AM) mauricio: agree
(9:26:40 AM) jgarnett: does not seem to do anyone any good.
(9:27:01 AM) moovida: ok, the double life that weakens, got it
(9:27:20 AM) gdavis_: arent those 2 postgis urls pointing to the same site?
(9:27:34 AM) jeffloun: yah, they do
(9:27:42 AM) gdavis_: what's so bad about that?
(9:27:47 AM) jgarnett: note there is already a project website http://udig.refractions.net/ and a refractions support website http://refractions.net/products/udig/
(9:28:14 AM) jeffloun: it's alright, let's just put a list of "companies that offer support:" under the existing support text, I think everyone would be good with that? I can live with it.
(9:28:48 AM) jgarnett: question for others here
(9:29:08 AM) jgarnett: does your organization have any interest in having a udig.camptocamp.org landing site that can be linked to?
(9:29:34 AM) jgarnett: I also note that the individuals on the PSC are listed here http://udig.refractions.net/developers/
(9:29:47 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I think that refractions has a very very strong branding, given that the sight URL has refractions in the name.
(9:29:51 AM) jgarnett has changed the topic to: 0) what is up 1) udig.refractions.net 2) code sprint 3) irc meeting time 4) nominate gdavis for psc
(9:30:04 AM) Jesse_Eichar: so I would imagine that you would stay as the first choice
(9:30:35 AM) jgarnett: I certaintly do; it is indeed why we moved the project from http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG
(9:30:45 AM) Jesse_Eichar: But right now when I tell people that other companies are involved I get complete surprise.
(9:30:54 AM) Jesse_Eichar: The impression is that only refractions supports uDig
(9:31:00 AM) jeffloun: I agree, it is not a large change
(9:31:51 AM) jgarnett: understood; it is important to me that the udig project is seen as having the range of support it actually does (just from product positioning regardless of any bent for lisasoft)
(9:31:52 AM) Jesse_Eichar: so it that a decision then? (just to be sure)
(9:31:56 AM) jgarnett: I will make the motion
(9:32:25 AM) moovida: so, to be sure I understand
(9:32:32 AM) jgarnett: I motion that we update the udig.refractions.net support page to list the organizations that support udig; "support" is taken to mean having volunteered a member to sit on the PSC (rather that just anyone out of the blue)
(9:32:33 AM) Jesse_Eichar: "I will make the motion"... :P
(9:33:05 AM) Jesse_Eichar: +1
(9:33:09 AM) jgarnett: note the stronger language; this is a form of "pay to play" - perhaps the language is too strong?
(9:33:23 AM) moovida: +1
(9:33:24 AM) jgarnett: +1
(9:33:26 AM) Jesse_Eichar: yep noted
(9:33:34 AM) mauricio: +1
(9:33:41 AM) jgarnett: okay time to move on ...
(9:33:50 AM) jgarnett: can I first grab agenda topic (4) :-)
(9:33:57 AM) jgarnett: 4) nominate gdavis for PSC
(9:34:01 AM) Jesse_Eichar: let jef vote
(9:34:02 AM) jeffloun: do you want me to make that change? just send me the company names and urls
(9:34:12 AM) moovida: can I first see his georeferencing module? :D
(9:34:22 AM) jgarnett: We have commit access Jeff
(9:34:34 AM) jeffloun: if my vote means anything, +1
(9:34:41 AM) jgarnett: thanks jeff
(9:34:58 AM) Jesse_Eichar: for now it does. After this meaning Graham is taking over for you
(9:35:04 AM) gdavis_: the incomplete georeferencing module is committed in the community section of trunk
(9:35:23 AM) ***moovida just joking Graham
(9:35:28 AM) gdavis_: :)
(9:35:31 AM) moovida: :D
(9:35:58 AM) jeffloun: sure, we may sit-in on meeting for each other from time-to-time, but he has more tech knowledge so i think it makes more sense
(9:35:59 AM) jgarnett: I would like to nominate graham davis to sit on the PSC ... for two reasons. He has extensive eclipse RCP and open source experience (geotools module maintainer etc.). He is becoming the point of contact for refractions research and can keep the steering committee abrest of any internal project deadlines we other wise trip over.
(9:36:06 AM) jgarnett: And he is just a nice guy :-)
(9:36:08 AM) Jesse_Eichar: ok +1 to gdavis to the PSC from me :)
(9:36:30 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I also can recommend graham
(9:36:30 AM) moovida: +1 to gdavis
(9:36:31 AM) mauricio: +1
(9:36:33 AM) jgarnett: +1 for gdavis from me.
(9:36:42 AM) jgarnett: (and it will be nice to have an odd number of votes)
(9:36:48 AM) jeffloun: +1
(9:36:53 AM) jgarnett: +1
(9:37:01 AM) gdavis_: yay for being the odd vote :)
(9:37:06 AM) moovida: jgarnett: , you voted twice
(9:37:08 AM) jgarnett: We will also update the developer page to list gdavis as psc.
(9:37:16 AM) jgarnett: well I did say gdavis was nice did I not...
(9:37:22 AM) jgarnett: (sigh - tough crowd)
(9:37:26 AM) moovida: :D
(9:37:29 AM) moovida: great
(9:37:31 AM) Jesse_Eichar: next point I need to get to bed (again)
(9:37:39 AM) jgarnett: 3) irc meeting time
(9:37:44 AM) moovida: yep
(9:37:46 AM) jgarnett: Can we meet earlier than this and still get everyone?
(9:37:51 AM) moovida: how to deal with that?
(9:37:52 AM) silli: 2) code sprint?
(9:37:54 AM) gdavis_: works for me
(9:38:06 AM) jgarnett: how much earlier would people like?
(9:38:10 AM) moovida: jgarnett is doing the agenda backwards
(9:38:21 AM) silli: :-)
(9:38:22 AM) jgarnett: reverse polish notation actually
(9:38:37 AM) moovida: for us always at 23 is not very feasible
(9:38:41 AM) jgarnett: (I was leaving code sprint until the end)
(9:38:47 AM) jgarnett: can we go 3 hours earlier?
(9:38:50 AM) Jesse_Eichar: meeting is going to be hard for me. I will make it when I can but normally go to bed around 2-3 hours ago.
(9:38:52 AM) moovida: but changing often means lose people
(9:39:20 AM) jgarnett: I can do 4 hours earlier Jesse; but only when I get internet at home. Would that be early enough for you?
(9:39:34 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I have to think...
(9:39:45 AM) jgarnett: okay let us take this to email then ...
(9:39:49 AM) moovida: that would be ok also for me, what about gdavis?
(9:39:59 AM) Jesse_Eichar: honestly no probably not. When the kids are awake it is out of the question.
(9:40:04 AM) jgarnett: It is still in work hours for gdavis as far as I can tell.
(9:40:08 AM) gdavis_: right now is 2:30 pm for me, so earlier is fine
(9:40:16 AM) moovida: ok
(9:40:17 AM) jgarnett: 3 hours earlier jesse?
(9:40:23 AM) Jesse_Eichar: for me 6 am is better but probably not so nice for the others here.
(9:40:30 AM) jgarnett: when do your kids go to bed.
(9:40:33 AM) mauricio: it s ok for me
(9:40:33 AM) Jesse_Eichar: or canada
(9:41:11 AM) jgarnett: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=12&day=11&year=2008&p1=256&p2=240&p3=268&p4=-1
(9:41:13 AM) Jesse_Eichar: what time it in victoria right now?
(9:41:26 AM) gdavis_: 2:40pm
(9:41:42 AM) jgarnett: 6am could work (see above link works out to 9pm, 4pm and 6am)
(9:42:09 AM) gdavis_: 6am what time?
(9:42:18 AM) gdavis_: utc?
(9:42:19 AM) jgarnett: see above link gdavis
(9:42:23 AM) Jesse_Eichar: zurick time :( not good for zou guys
(9:42:26 AM) jgarnett: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2008&month=12&day=11&hour=5&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=240&p3=268
(9:42:59 AM) jgarnett: 9pm europe also looks okay http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2008&month=12&day=10&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=256&p2=240&p3=268
(9:43:08 AM) gdavis_: ya 9pm isnt a great time for me
(9:43:49 AM) moovida: ok, this gets endless, should take it to email, jgarnett was right
(9:43:50 AM) jgarnett: I would like to leave this for jesse to think about; Jesse can you make a motion when you are ready?
(9:43:52 AM) Jesse_Eichar: ok lets take it to mail
(9:43:55 AM) jgarnett: cool.
(9:44:01 AM) jgarnett: pop stack
(9:44:03 AM) jgarnett: 2) code sprint
(9:44:20 AM) jgarnett: code sprint is a great idea ... and there are some very fun / stratigic things to work on.
(9:44:29 AM) jgarnett: I would be up for a weekend hacking if anyone else is game.
(9:44:33 AM) moovida: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Udig_round_the_world_sprint
(9:44:46 AM) moovida: I'm glad to join
(9:44:48 AM) jgarnett: In particular hacking on the mr buller's ideas would be amazing :-)
(9:45:03 AM) silli: me too!
(9:45:07 AM) moovida: but I would like to have it organised
(9:45:28 AM) moovida: we work mostly with udig and do just small fixed in udig
(9:45:32 AM) moovida: from time to time
(9:45:42 AM) jgarnett: the first 2 weekends are bad for me; I should be on a plane going off to give a udig course.
(9:45:43 AM) moovida: so we would need coordination and directions
(9:45:57 AM) jgarnett: however I wanted to try the udig 1.2 SDK for the training course so I was going to try hitting it really hard.
(9:46:26 AM) moovida: so you wanted to do it earlier? or later?
(9:46:40 AM) jgarnett: moovida; we can set goals and be organized. The going through trunk for stability is a good goal for example.
(9:46:59 AM) moovida: yes, absolutely
(9:47:07 AM) jgarnett: I would like to do it earlier (it would be amazing prep for me doing a training course) .. however I do not suspect that anyone has a weekend avaialble during the holidays.
(9:47:23 AM) silli: I think it is possible to do also on 27-28th December
(9:47:26 AM) jgarnett: since I am new in town and have no friends yet (ha ha) my weekends are available.
(9:47:37 AM) moovida: yes, difficult
(9:47:41 AM) jgarnett: that weekend is often tied up with familly
(9:48:02 AM) moovida: you mean 27-28 od December? :)
(9:48:10 AM) jgarnett: so let me first ask those with familly commitments; when do you think you guys could have a weekend near the internet :-)
(9:48:11 AM) moovida: I think we can't get anyone
(9:48:23 AM) Jesse_Eichar: no weekends for me
(9:48:48 AM) tupi: neither for me
(9:48:48 AM) Jesse_Eichar: basically ever
(9:48:55 AM) jgarnett: weekend of the 17th seems fine (out of those proposed on the page)
(9:48:58 AM) mauricio: :)
(9:49:16 AM) jgarnett: thinking; would you guys like to try for a friday / saturday combo?
(9:49:30 AM) jgarnett: (ie is there anyway you can warn work and get a day freedup for solid hacking?)
(9:49:30 AM) moovida: hold on, so some only in the weekend and some only outside?
(9:49:57 AM) jgarnett: do a pass the batton thing ... correct.
(9:50:50 AM) Jesse_Eichar: that is more likely workable. That way I can likely get one day in on the sprint.
(9:51:27 AM) moovida: for me infra or weekend is oth ok
(9:51:46 AM) gdavis_ is now known as gdavis__
(9:51:54 AM) gdavis__ is now known as gdavis___
(9:51:58 AM) jgarnett: how about the Jan 16th/17th or Jan 2nd/3rd
(9:52:03 AM) moovida: so I leave the choice to those who have issues
(9:52:23 AM) gdavis___ is now known as gdavis_
(9:52:44 AM) jgarnett: (2nd / 3rd would be the most helpful for me ... but everyone may be still slow from new years parties)
(9:53:01 AM) moovida: :)
(9:53:05 AM) silli: :)
(9:53:11 AM) moovida: I would vote for 2/3
(9:53:18 AM) moovida: no problam with that
(9:53:37 AM) moovida: but then we would need to get a udig 1.2test out for testing soon
(9:53:41 AM) jgarnett: I can do any of those so I would like to leave the decision with those with scheduling conflicts
(9:53:45 AM) moovida: so that bugs are collected
(9:53:57 AM) jgarnett: moovida++ (but we can take that to email)
(9:53:59 AM) Jesse_Eichar: cant do 2-r
(9:54:11 AM) Jesse_Eichar: 2-3 because I am moving for Jan 1ish
(9:54:20 AM) jgarnett: how about 16th / 17th then jesse?
(9:54:29 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I think that is acceptable
(9:54:57 AM) moovida: mauricio?
(9:55:01 AM) moovida: ugo?
(9:55:06 AM) mauricio: 16 17+
(9:55:08 AM) moovida: gdavis?
(9:55:10 AM) tupi: fine
(9:55:40 AM) jgarnett: gdavis_ ping?
(9:55:49 AM) jgarnett: okay let us pencil that in; and we can start organzing on email (making a 1.2 test and building up a hit list etc...)
(9:55:59 AM) gdavis_: i cant commit to anything right now
(9:56:10 AM) gdavis_: i might be travelling next month and don't know yet
(9:56:25 AM) Jesse_Eichar: ok sounds great continue in email.
(9:56:28 AM) silli left the room (quit: "ChatZilla 0.9.84 [Firefox 3.0.4/2008102920]").
(9:56:29 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I'm bagged.
(9:56:43 AM) gdavis_: ok, i think the meeting is over then?
(9:56:56 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I hope so :)
(9:57:03 AM) gdavis_: jesse, please see if you can check my email about modal tools tomorrow or the next day
(9:57:10 AM) gdavis_: would appreciate it
(9:57:17 AM) gdavis_: or wait, you already did
(9:57:17 AM) Jesse_Eichar: sure will
(9:57:22 AM) Jesse_Eichar: Well read the email
(9:57:29 AM) Jesse_Eichar: didn't do anything about it though.
(9:57:40 AM) Jesse_Eichar: there is some bug in 1.2 but I don't know what
(9:57:46 AM) gdavis_: right ok
(9:57:52 AM) jgarnett: pop
(9:57:54 AM) jgarnett: stack empty
(9:57:56 AM) jgarnett: meeting over.
(9:57:56 AM) moovida: added the date to http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Udig_round_the_world_sprint
(9:58:04 AM) moovida: please add ideas there
(9:58:13 AM) Jesse_Eichar: I will see if I see the problem tomorrow.
(9:58:22 AM) jgarnett: I will post the logs
(9:58:28 AM) jgarnett: thanks everyone; and welcome gdavis
(9:58:30 AM) moovida: great jgarnett
(9:58:30 AM) Jesse_Eichar: but can't guarantee because we have a demo on monday so I will probably be busy.
(9:58:38 AM) moovida: thanks, good night
(9:58:45 AM) gdavis_: thanks
(9:58:46 AM) mauricio: good night
(9:58:46 AM) Jesse_Eichar: ok thanks everyone and good night
(9:58:50 AM) Jesse_Eichar left the room.
(9:58:50 AM) ***moovida slowly fading away...
(9:59:08 AM) tupi left the room.
(9:59:22 AM) moovida left the room.
(9:59:23 AM) mauricio: mauricio shutdown

Monday, November 17, 2008

uDig 1.1.1 included on GISVM November

I was pleased to see the announcement of another www.gisvm.com image on our user list. This release includes the combination of uDig 1.1.1 and several community modules (axios + sextante + visual feature) and a host of other great open source software.

For those following along at home the uDig 1.1.1 release is a point release; while you can download it if you like; the functionality is available by choosing update from the help menu.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

uDig 1.1.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of uDig 1.1.0. This release is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows directly from our downloads page.

New capabilities of uDig 1.1.0 include:

  • Enhance editing, including a complete framework to support the creation of new tools

  • Enhanced thematic styling; thanks to the ColorBrewer project for making some amazing palettes

  • Table View supporting the use of Common Query Language

  • A reshape operator that using CQL expressions to process features in an ad-hoc manner

  • Creation of new feature types for PostGIS and shapefile

  • Introduction of a Tasks based workflow, making use of data validation

  • Mac OS/X support

The original development of uDIG in 2004 was supported in part by Canada's GeoConnections / GeoInnovations program. Development of this second release has been made possible by the uDIG open source community, with special thanks to AxiosCamp2CampHydrologis and Refractions. We would also like to thank our email list for the kind testing and encouragement leading up to this release.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

IRC Logs October 9th

jgarnett: morning
jgarnett: I belive jesse is on holiday this week
jgarnett: I sent an email reminder out a few minuets ago
mauricio: hello
jgarnett: along with some agenda topics
jgarnett has changed the topic to: 0) what is up 1) 1.1.0 2) trunk 3) build
jgarnett: mauricio do you have anything for the agenda?
mauricio: presicion tools
jgarnett: I would love to have an update from FOSS4G; but it seems they are all still sleeping.
jgarnett has changed the topic to: 0) what is up 1) 1.1.0 2) trunk 3) build 4) presicion tools
jgarnett: emily_g ?
emily_g: good morning
jgarnett: right.
jgarnett: okay let us move ...
jgarnett: 0) what is up
jgarnett: jgarnett - I am rather fried; I have been trying to do small tasks like clean up catalog interfaces and remove test cases from our plugins.
emily_g: I've integrated the tiled rendering system. It can be used by setting the preference in the rendering preference page
jgarnett: what have you guys been up to?
mauricio: Paralell tools and release es.axios.extensionsrc9
mauricio: parallels
emily_g: jgarnett - I wanted to talk about Map Blackboard serialization but if jesse is away maybe I should wait until next week?
mauricio: there is any news about 1.1
mauricio: any posible date ?
jgarnett: Jesse finished it
jgarnett: and uploaded it here (and told me I could anounce it)
mauricio: good
jgarnett: http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/uDig11/
jgarnett: but as you can see the upload failed 1/2 way
jgarnett: so we need him to upload again.
mauricio: ok
jgarnett: The other thing we could do; since the 1.1.0 "tag" seems finished; is to juggle svn around so 1.1.x has all the changes made to the 1.1.0 tag.
jgarnett: it may be quickest just to "copy" 1.1.0 to 1.1.x - and then update all the version numbers again.
jgarnett: I have reports of some layer refresh problems interrupting a customers RCP app.
jgarnett: So we may need a developer to dive in there and apply some fixes sometime this month.
jgarnett: If that is the case I would expect a 1.1.1 at the end of the month.
jgarnett: I assume we would do "dot" releases every month as long as teams are working against the 1.1.x series.
jgarnett: mauricio you have teams working on 1.1.x right?
mauricio: yes
mauricio: the last versions of our plugins are in 1.1.x
jgarnett: Refractions has one project working against 1.1.x right now; but that is our only exposure.
jgarnett: 1.1.x is realy going to lean on you and your team; for monthly releases etc.
jgarnett: (even right now I am explaining to Ugo Taddei that I have no developers available to make him an SDK release of trunk)
jgarnett: shall we move on?
jgarnett: 2) trunk
jgarnett: It feels as if a lot is happening ... with relatively little communication.
jgarnett: I cannot always keep track of what the developers on the udig-devel list are working on.
emily_g: what would you like to see?
jgarnett: mauricio you are pretty clear what we are up to on trunk on this end?
mauricio: actualy no
jgarnett: emily_g I think we have been okay with communication; I am not always sure what the developers on the email list (like Jurgen Jacob or Ugo Taddei) are doing.
jgarnett: we are making the uDig rendering system "fast"
jgarnett: that is we are burning memory (and now disk) to make the rendering experience better.
jgarnett: Graham davis has implemented a client for WMSC (ie GeoWebCache or TileServer)
jgarnett: and that can be used as a fast alternative to WMS
emily_g: can we send an email to the list and ask people who are working on trunk to summarize what they've been doing?
jgarnett: just this week Graham started making use of local disk to cache tiles.
jgarnett: emily_g - that is a good idea.
jgarnett: emily_g do you want to describe what you are doing?
emily_g: I've been doing the tiled rendering stuff - rendering data in tiles
emily_g: and saving these tiles so when you pan around you don't have to rerender them
jgarnett: so as you pan around it is smooth; no flashes of "white" as with the current system you are used to on uDig 1.1.0
emily_g: next I"m looking into trying to make the panning smoother
jgarnett: we have a couple problems left:
jgarnett: - mapgraphics need to smarten up about the fact there are tiles
jgarnett: - not sure what else/
emily_g: mapgraphics is the main issue I know about at the moment
jgarnett: I am trying to do a bit of technical debt; the catalog api for example; and cleaning up factories that are not used.
jgarnett: mauricio have you tried out trunk very much?
mauricio: we compile with trunk 1 month ago
mauricio: and we test udig
mauricio: but when you began with the refactoring
mauricio: I prefered to wait
jgarnett: the refactoring?
mauricio: yes
jgarnett: the rendering stuff does not change any api
mauricio: project
mauricio: rendering
mauricio: etc
emily_g: we changed the render metrics api
emily_g: a while ago
emily_g: and made a few other changes to some of the apis to get the tiled stuff going
jgarnett: right - I had forgotten. It is now closer to the uDig 0.9 origional.
jgarnett: emily_g how much of that will effect people; should we maintain an update guide?
jgarnett: (the main difference for me is geotools)
emily_g: the rendering metrics changed quite a bit
emily_g: the other stuff probably doesn't matter
emily_g: I think we have a wiki page describing the update
mauricio: that could be good
mauricio: some times i am not sure
mauricio: about if is convenient invest effort to compile with trunk
jgarnett: well I cannot do too much to encourage you
jgarnett: short of deleting 1.1.x :-P
jgarnett: but when you are ready; trunk will be an improved experience.
mauricio: :)
mauricio: ok
jgarnett: 3 build
jgarnett: It sounds like Jesse is all for moving to Eclipse 3.4.1
jgarnett: and Ugo already made the transition and did not talk to us about it ...
jgarnett: ... so what is involved? Making another "Extras"?
jgarnett: It sounds like uDig ran into some trouble with the "nls" plugins we included with extras - I am not sure what to do about that.
jgarnett: I would like to ask Moovida since he made them.
jgarnett: Emily do you think we could check with our customer about upgrading? And then get back to the list ...
emily_g: we can definitely ask
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jgarnett: there are some questions about headless build; and a rant about scala
lotu: yes there are
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jgarnett: not sure I care to comment much. We lack anyone to try headless builds; or making an SDK release.
jgarnett: welcome :-) You caught the tail end of the meeting...
jgarnett: we are still on the subject of "build"
hbullen2: yes I get up too late
jgarnett: np. Most of your questions are for Jesse.
hbullen2: k
jgarnett: I just wanted to be clear that I was not being rude to you on this subject; I simply do not know the answers - having not tried headless build myself.
hbullen2: oh I guess that is understandable
hbullen2: I actually got one working late yesterday
hbullen2: I had to edit one of the scala files though to get a single file
jgarnett: interesting
jgarnett: what platform are you on?
jgarnett: (or what was the edit; I was wondering why Jesse did not encounter the problem you were seeing)
jgarnett: also: if I could ask a favour - would it be possible for you to upload an SDK based on trunk? Even just at the end of each month?
hbullen2: I was on linux, and the SDK has run on both windows and linux so far.
hbullen2: Sure where would be a good place to put it?
jgarnett: the udig "files/downloads" directory
jgarnett: it is a webdav folder and your svn credentials should work.
jgarnett: http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/
hbullen2: okay that works for me
jgarnett: and if you can kindly just put the file in the list; jesse keeps hiding things in folders (so they do not appear on the website). I want them to appear on the website :-)
jgarnett: (it is important to release early and release often)
jgarnett: that would be *so* cool.
hbullen2: by list you mean the ???
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dassouki: jgarnett: a small postgis question if u have time :D
hbullen2: go for it jgarnett I have some calls to make
jgarnett: let us do our last agenda topic
jgarnett: and then postgis question?
jgarnett: 4) precision tools
jgarnett: mauricio this one is yours.
mauricio: ok
dassouki: sounds good :D
mauricio: well
jgarnett: Are you referring to changing the JTS percision settings?
mauricio: it is abou
mauricio: t
mauricio: the interactions
mauricio: required for tools
mauricio: to add presicion when you are drawing
mauricio: now you can use the tools to do sketch
mauricio: but our users are asking
mauricio: "how can introduce coord, length, etc"
mauricio: have you some similar requirement
mauricio: ?
jgarnett: I am trying to understand
jgarnett: coord, length etc?
mauricio: :)
jgarnett: what do you mean?
jgarnett: perhaps if you could tell me a story; what the user would do and click.
mauricio: ok
jgarnett: are you thinking of how to type that up now? Or should we take this to email...
mauricio: how can a user draw a linestring in a precision position of word
jgarnett: one again I am not sure
jgarnett: in my experience people do not draw very often
jgarnett: sometimes they "trace" against a raster
jgarnett: or they "snap" to other layers
emily_g: do you want to be able to round off all the coordinates in your geometry to 2 decimal places instead of default of double precision?
jgarnett: perhaps we are having trouble with the "precision" aspect of your question
jgarnett: do you want to let people select a point; and type in exactly the coordinates?
mauricio: maybe
jgarnett: the usual answer is to "zoom in"
jgarnett: and then read the coordinates in the bottom of the screen.
hbullen2: That might be nice, for some people I know
jgarnett: JTS has a concept of percision (and we could tract how "accurate" your data is allowed to be)
jgarnett: and then as you zoom in we could replace a "point"
jgarnett: with a square of the correct size
jgarnett: so people coudl *see* the percision they are working with.
hbullen2: We told them to edit the point with the default feature editor but they didn't like that alot
jgarnett: so what you have is a story of something your customer woudl like to do...
jgarnett: .. snapping (to other features or to grid) is one way to help
jgarnett: but I think you should talk to your users and see what they expect.
jgarnett: are they trying to enter in data from like an onsite measurements or something?
mauricio: yes
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jgarnett: are they wanting to do "data entry"
jgarnett: or are they wanting to use the mouse?
hbullen2: they pretty much had a list of airports and wanted to get an intern to edit them. So they wanted it to be very easy, thats all.
jgarnett: (and it is line data rather than points?)
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mauricio: is important introduce points coord
mauricio: but too
mauricio: the length of line string
mauricio: segments
mauricio: distance betwen linestrings
jgarnett: well I can think of all sorts of creative ways to do it :
jgarnett: -)
jgarnett: here is an example...
jgarnett: 1. make a tool.
jgarnett: 2. and a view
mauricio: god
mauricio: good
jgarnett: 3. allow people to enter a coordinate in the view
jgarnett: 4. as they use the tool they can use the middle mouse button to change the length of their line
jgarnett: (you can report that in the view; or in a "bubble" on the screen next to the line)
jgarnett: 5. as they move the pointer the line (of the length mentioned above) will change direction (barring)
jgarnett: 6. The user can then click to "Accept"
jgarnett: 7. and continue ...
mauricio: ok that was my first idea
jgarnett: that should result in a pretty clear user expereince. But until you build it and try it ... you do not know if your user would like it.
jgarnett: but you should really know up front what "percision" your users would like to work in; have them enter that into the view; and make sure they are zoomed in enough for tis to actually work.
jgarnett: ---
jgarnett: the "Sqaure" idea is actually better (since it communicates the limits of what JTS math can do ...)
jgarnett: another "simple" thing to do is ..;
jgarnett: 1. move the pointer as per normal
jgarnett: 2. allow a key board modifier that when held; moves the pointer at 1/2 speed
jgarnett: and has a bubble showing the percision.
jgarnett: 3. have seperate key modifier for horizontal; and virticle
jgarnett: (so people can worry about one at a time)
jgarnett: 4. use the buble to show the actual value.
jgarnett: so they woudl need to choose if they are playing with "length"
jgarnett: or with "location"
jgarnett: but yeah try out some stuff; or talk to your customer.
jgarnett: uDig will kind of let you build anything.
mauricio: ok we are working in some spike to try the idea
jgarnett: can we wrap up the meeting?
mauricio: that is ok for me
jgarnett: dassouki; you had a postgis question
jgarnett: (I will post the logs now)