[Gvsig_english] Why gvSIG CE came about & CLA

[Francisco José Peñarrubia]

TSC (Technical Steering Comitee) is a list of people (public) where 
technical discussions go on. People in this list is invited not taking 
care about the company, but about its commitement with gvSIG project.
I think José Antonio Canalejo is there, and I think Ben is there (or 
should have been invited).

When TSC want to approuve something, it makes a proposal to board. The 
board is goup of people (representing different views of the project: 
developers, testing, users, stategical) and they vote proposals. Again, 
there is no requirements to be part of the Association to be in board.

About SVN: Several years ago, I was one of most angry people about 
"closing" SVN, and now the situation is different (not perfect, in my 
opinion, but I know people in board are trying to change this... beacuse 
in TSC there was a proposal to change it). You can have SVN write access 
if you have contributed to the project some patches, but (now) you can't 
put your own patches IF we are in stabilization mode. Now, we are not, 
so we can use write permissions. When stabilization period begins 
(September), the patches will be revised more carefully in order to 
don't break something just before the stable release (otherwise, it will 
not be stable....).

Today, there are more companies contributing to the project, and also 
there are more personal contributors sending patches (many thanks to 
them, BTW. Myself too, I contribute in my spare time :-p). And one of 
them has been Benjamin, of course... and besides of many thanks to him, 
we should say also sorry for our faults about not fullfill his 
requirements. Myself, again, I suffered some disappointments like him, 
so I understand a bit his reasons. (But don't think is a good idea to 
fork, at least now. I asked (as others developers consulted by CE 
people) a bit of pacience to see the results of new protocols). There 
are also other developers that have sent their patches, and we agree in 
TSC we should do much better about been more agiles with those 
contributions. So, thanks to them, and sorry as well.

I have tried to answer your questions. Hope it helps.

Anyway, these are only my personal opinions. CE people have their 
opinions, and we should respect them, but I think it will be better for 
all to wait and see. And if they can't wait, well, good luck. In this 
case, gvSIG may loose contributors, but I hope we (as people) will still 
be able to put controversial aside, meet in GIS events, and have some beers.

Best regards.

Fran.

El 01/07/2011 15:11, Wolfgang Qual escribió:
> Dear Fran,
>
> "... but at least, the fork
> will help to clarify many things arround the project, and will make us
> better. "
>
> I guess this is really necessary. I will keep on asking these naive
> questions. But I think that there are quite some more who do not understand
> this structure. If the paying members of the association keep the project
> alive: do they control the development more than normal users (I guess so)?
> Some things need to be explained better: I remember discussions about the
> SVN one or two years ago. Not only reading access was requested, but also
> the possibility to contribute to the programme via SVN. Wasn't this one
> criteria for gvsig to become an osgeo-project (btw, what is the status at
> the moment)? Who is currently developing gvSIG (some time ago, there were
> two companies, many developers. But today?)? It seems to be not that easy to
> contribute to the project (as an "external" developer) - true? Many
> questions, I just led my mind wander...
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
>
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