Very fine. Thanks !<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Tim Schaub <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tschaub@opengeo.org">tschaub@opengeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sounds good to me Andreas. Thanks for organizing.<br>
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Andreas Hocevar <<a href="mailto:ahocevar@opengeo.org">ahocevar@opengeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I would like to ask for approval to post the following information to<br>
> the dev list. This is a fact sheet that was sent out by terrestris,<br>
> Mapgears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo to clients that had expressed<br>
> interest in funding for making GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x, and to<br>
> keep the GeoExt community sane the idea has been brought up to make<br>
> more public what happens behind the scenes.<br>
><br>
> Please also suggest changes if you feel it is good to make this effort<br>
> public, but not exactly this way:<br>
><br>
> ----------<br>
> Subject: Planned GeoExt 2.0 Sprint for Ext JS 4.x compatibility<br>
><br>
> Ext JS 4.x has been available for a while now, and GeoExt 1.x only<br>
> works with Ext JS 3.x. With new attractive features in Ext JS 4.x<br>
> (e.g. charting, harmonized API with Sencha Touch for mobile<br>
> applications), users demand a GeoExt version that works with Ext JS<br>
> 4.x. This sprint is about working on such a version. Let’s give it the<br>
> working title “GeoExt 2.0”.<br>
><br>
> Four organizations involved in the development of GeoExt have<br>
> expressed interest in getting together for a code sprint to make<br>
> GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x: Camptocamp and OpenGeo are two of the<br>
> founding organizations of GeoExt, with core committers that maintain<br>
> the project. terrestris has experience in implementing geo-related<br>
> features on top of Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch. They also have developed<br>
> gxm, a flavor of GeoExt that works on mobile devices, an effort that<br>
> was reviewed by GeoExt core committers. Mapgears is a solution<br>
> provider delivering applications based on GeoExt. They have<br>
> contributed many features to GeoExt, and maintain several user<br>
> extensions.<br>
><br>
> The goal of the sprint is to release a preliminary version of GeoExt<br>
> 2.0, which will immediately be available to the community and funding<br>
> organizations, but may not yet have all the features from GeoExt 1.x.<br>
><br>
> The Ext JS 4.x API is different from the one in previous versions, so<br>
> a natural consequence of this is that GeoExt 2.0 can not be fully API<br>
> compatible with GeoExt 1.x.<br>
><br>
> terrestris, MapGears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo have come up with an<br>
> estimated funding requirement of US$ 52,000, which covers the costs of<br>
> up to 8 developers getting together for focused work on GeoExt 2.0 for<br>
> 5 days. The budget includes travel costs, accommodation and food, and<br>
> a share of the costs of the development hours (the rest of the<br>
> development hours will be covered by the 4 organizations).<br>
><br>
> Funding organizations may communicate their priorities for GeoExt 1.x<br>
> features they want ported to 2.0. These priorities will be considered,<br>
> but fulfillment cannot be guaranteed, due to dependencies on other<br>
> features that require more work to be ported.<br>
><br>
> A date for the sprint can be set as soon as the commitment from<br>
> funding organizations sums up to the amount of US$ 52,000. We hope<br>
> that the sprint can happen some time between now and April 2012.<br>
> ----------<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Andreas Hocevar<br>
> OpenGeo - <a href="http://opengeo.org/" target="_blank">http://opengeo.org/</a><br>
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