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

[Cédric MOULLET]

Very fine. Thanks !

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:

> Sounds good to me Andreas.  Thanks for organizing.
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:45 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.
> >
> > 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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> > Andreas Hocevar
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