[Psc] Details about GeoExt 2.0 sprint on the dev list

[Eric Lemoine]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask for approval to post the following information to
> the dev list. This is a fact sheet that was sent out by terrestris,
> Mapgears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo to clients that had expressed
> interest in funding for making GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x, and to
> keep the GeoExt community sane the idea has been brought up to make
> more public what happens behind the scenes.


+1. Thank you Andreas.


>
> Please also suggest changes if you feel it is good to make this effort
> public, but not exactly this way:
>
> ----------
> Subject: Planned GeoExt 2.0 Sprint for Ext JS 4.x compatibility
>
> Ext JS 4.x has been available for a while now, and GeoExt 1.x only
> works with Ext JS 3.x. With new attractive features in Ext JS 4.x
> (e.g. charting, harmonized API with Sencha Touch for mobile
> applications), users demand a GeoExt version that works with Ext JS
> 4.x. This sprint is about working on such a version. Let’s give it the
> working title “GeoExt 2.0”.
>
> Four organizations involved in the development of GeoExt have
> expressed interest in getting together for a code sprint to make
> GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x: Camptocamp and OpenGeo are two of the
> founding organizations of GeoExt, with core committers that maintain
> the project. terrestris has experience in implementing geo-related
> features on top of Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch. They also have developed
> gxm, a flavor of GeoExt that works on mobile devices, an effort that
> was reviewed by GeoExt core committers. Mapgears is a solution
> provider delivering applications based on GeoExt. They have
> contributed many features to GeoExt, and maintain several user
> extensions.
>
> The goal of the sprint is to release a preliminary version of GeoExt
> 2.0, which will immediately be available to the community and funding
> organizations, but may not yet have all the features from GeoExt 1.x.
>
> The Ext JS 4.x API is different from the one in previous versions, so
> a natural consequence of this is that GeoExt 2.0 can not be fully API
> compatible with GeoExt 1.x.
>
> terrestris, MapGears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo have come up with an
> estimated funding requirement of US$ 52,000, which covers the costs of
> up to 8 developers getting together for focused work on GeoExt 2.0 for
> 5 days. The budget includes travel costs, accommodation and food, and
> a share of the costs of the development hours (the rest of the
> development hours will be covered by the 4 organizations).
>
> Funding organizations may communicate their priorities for GeoExt 1.x
> features they want ported to 2.0. These priorities will be considered,
> but fulfillment cannot be guaranteed, due to dependencies on other
> features that require more work to be ported.
>
> A date for the sprint can be set as soon as the commitment from
> funding organizations sums up to the amount of US$ 52,000. We hope
> that the sprint can happen some time between now and April 2012.
> ----------
>
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