Wow Jorge,you've raised the discussion to HOT! ;)<br>I hope it wont's cause another endless flame...<br><br>Cheers,<br>giovanni<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/28 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsanz@gvsig.com">jsanz@gvsig.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">El 27/06/11 10:47, Simon Cropper escribió:<br>
> Hi Everyone,<br>
><br>
> I have recently joined the CE Maillist and posted the following<br>
> question. As it pertains to both this list and that list I am also<br>
> posting it here...<br>
><br>
> *** POST ***<br>
><br>
> Why is gvSIG CE here? To me the reason for its creation is unclear.If<br>
> you intend to encourage adoption then the distinction between these<br>
> gvSIG and gvSIG CE needs to be clarified.<br>
><br>
> The OADE version and the original code was finally remerged creating a<br>
> single code base in 2010 and next thing I see is that the code is split<br>
> into two projects again.<br>
><br>
> Personally I find it hard to decide where to place my attention /<br>
> allegiances. I have spent over a year getting data and building my<br>
> website to house my tutorials (most of which will be on gvSIG) and now I<br>
> have two separate projects, GUI and communities. Do I stick with the<br>
> original program/community or the new CE one? The same dilemma I had<br>
> when considering creating tutorials for the OADE versus the original<br>
> program.<br>
><br>
> The same indecision will, no doubt, be in the minds of any new comer<br>
> looking at adopting the software.<br>
><br>
> As a general observation -- the gvSIG community appears to be<br>
> splintering as various groups try and drag the project in different<br>
> directions.<br>
><br>
> This is in contrast to say the QGIS community that over the last year<br>
> appears to be growing in strength and pooling resources.<br>
><br>
<br>
Hi Simon,<br>
<br>
gvSIG is a place where everyone can contribute as you can state by your<br>
own history. Not just patches but also documentation, translations, case<br>
studies, artwork and so on. That's happening everyday, no matter what<br>
others say.<br>
<br>
On the development side where are continuously improving our workflows,<br>
the balance between being agile or quick and being very conscious about<br>
stability, GUI consistency and so on is not easy. Our Technical Steering<br>
Committee (which mailing list is open to everyone) are finishing a<br>
document about code contributions workflows and roles.<br>
<br>
So my first point is about to confirm that the whole gvSIG team is<br>
focused on the community, all the time, since the beginning of the<br>
project. Of course everything can be improved, but stating elsewhere<br>
that gvSIG team doesn't collaborate is a non-sense.<br>
<br>
If a group of users or developers want to follow another path we cannot<br>
do anything against that, apart to try to understand the real reasons of<br>
their fork. I personally did that on the CE list asking openly what the<br>
gvSIG team can do to reorient the CE group to other kind of activity<br>
instead a fork and I didn't get any answer. On the same way that group<br>
didn't discussed here about their intentions or concerns before starting<br>
their initiative. They just decided by themselves that the idea was ok<br>
and now they say they are more open oriented than the gvSIG team. Cool.<br>
<br>
Even the name, in my opinion is perverse. They are the Community Edition<br>
and we are... what?? They insist on the "CIT gvSIG" name that is also<br>
wrong. gvSIG is a project born at CIT, and everyone should be proud of<br>
CIT encouraging gvSIG but gvSIG is a community project, supported by the<br>
gvSIG Association and thousands of users, developers, companies,<br>
universities and public administrations all around the world.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas<br>
gvSIG Team at Prodevelop<br>
Technical Collaborations Manager<br>
<a href="http://www.gvsig.org" target="_blank">http://www.gvsig.org</a><br>
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