The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the second release candidate for the 2.1 edition.
This release, and with the switch to the 2.0 version of GeoAPI completed, only fixes to bugs lie between here and the final 2.1 release.
If you are developing aginst the 2.0 branch then now is a good time to start thinking about switching to 2.1 as all new (and thus experimental features) are being done on the 2.2 branch with only bug fixes and optimizations scheduled for the 2.1 branch.
For more information please see the 2.1.RC1 download page.
jmacgill Hi all
jgarnett Hi James!
jgarnett See the subject line, I am still near the conference and there is a weather warning out.
jmacgill who is awake here?
jgarnett I was going to ask if the 2.1.RC1 has been anounced yet (like on the website?)
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jgarnett Hi (again) see subject line, there is a good old storm warning and may cut out at time ...
jmacgill looks like quite a few people are logged in but akf
jgarnett Well I imagine the udig crew is flaked out
jmacgill head now full of ideas from conference
jgarnett (I know richard and myself are on holiday)
jgarnett 1) Ideas from the conference (aka Cholmes is right)
jgarnett 2) 2.1.RC1 can someone anounce on the website
jgarnett I could ask where the IRC logs are from last week as well?
jmacgill what happend at 'meet the developers' I had to run?
jgarnett It was pretty good
jgarnett Lots of agreement on "Users please download early download often"\
jgarnett lots of storeys of 10 downloads for a milestone 100 for a rlease candidate 1000 for a release.
jgarnett (aka the open source routine is not exactly as advertised)
jgarnett I was surprised to find that the geotools / geoserver / udig sceen is one of the largest
jgarnett in terms of developers.
jgarnett And that for the work that needs to be done everyone is looking our way.
jmacgill Yeah?
jgarnett Strange for a community that is so under represented, and is not on the list for the next conference.
jgarnett Everything from the C libs not being thread safe (they hope the java bindings help kick out the bugs), to the usual need for catalog.
jgarnett I also found that talk from Apache interesting, and think we shoudl hunt down some of the code in geotools and kick it out.
jmacgill Have you read WPS yet?
jgarnett (There is some that has different (c) at the top from fed employees that needs attention)
jgarnett Not yet (on holiday) 
jmacgill yeah, I know - I 'think' we can re-licencse
jmacgill as we are narrowing the scope
jgarnett I think I am going to write down a list of projects I want to work on.
jgarnett And why I think they are cool, or important.
jmacgill me too, its quite long
jmacgill yeah, I'm about to start blogging (with embeded JIRA links)
jgarnett And raster, raster ,raster, raster. Catalog and raster were the two big holes in the community right now.
jgarnett Where were you going to do your blogs james?
jmacgill codehaus
jgarnett I was thinking of blogging on Java.net
jgarnett we we tag team in a couple of places we can increse visiability.
jmacgill you know, that might be better
jmacgill so spread out you mean?
jgarnett well lets hit both, the moment udig stepped off of code haus our hits went down a lot.
jmacgill ok, I'll stay on codehaus
jgarnett Yeah.
jgarnett And we need to get cholmes going somewhere (his emails are often better blogs), I know I have lost a couple I wanted to go back and read.
jgarnett (see comment about cholmes being right) I am glad het usually attends these things for us.
jmacgill eogeo
jgarnett get him to blog on eogeo?
jmacgill yeah
jgarnett good plan.
jgarnett The other thing I want is pictures, such as the one josh drew us.
jgarnett Or that geotools diagram I drew that keeps appearing in everyones presentation.
jgarnett So James, we don't really have enough for a meeting.
jmacgill Don't think so no
jgarnett If dblasby was here I would thank him for representing the community so well
jgarnett He did a great job about answer questions of process and so on during the panel.
jmacgill Lets email, blog and chat this week to pick up some direction and motivation for the next meeting
jgarnett James can you punt the release anouncements out for 2.1.RC1 ?
jmacgill has anywhere been hit already?
jgarnett I would like to get a clear game plan going, so we can ask for help.
jgarnett The devel list, and the release is up (and on the download page).
jmacgill but not FM, java.net, SF etc
jgarnett But the anouncements have not been sent out.
jgarnett I see no evidence of it.
jmacgill ok, will do
jgarnett I think udig 1.0.0 is in the same situtation.
jgarnett (perhaps you could cross link as we did with the last release and geoserver)
jgarnett Dave's talk was very good as well.
jgarnett (did you catch any of it?)
jgarnett I initially thought it was too low level (several people left when they saw javascript at the start - several other talks were on the topic), and several more when he started carefully explaining WFS and WMS. However when he put it all together with SLD and doing things in a OGC standard way people paid attention.
jgarnett In fact one wonder why they should go to this effort to talk to GeoServer - they did not know WFS was a standard with Commerical implementations available.
jgarnett Some times I felt like we are in our own little world.
jgarnett So what was the take home message, catalog is needed, raster is needed (GDAL?), and ...
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jgarnett .. one thing I did not find was a lot of developers.
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jgarnett ping?
jmacgill lo again
jgarnett Well I don't know when i cut out ...
jmacgill WFS commercial implementations
jmacgill yeah, education and outreach seems important
jgarnett Also enthusasim, I am tempted to work through the users list after we write down the list of ideas.
jgarnett See if we can stir up some interest.
jmacgill WPS interests me as it adds the missing operations part that lets users 'do' something with the tools
jgarnett It would be fun to resolve the operations API based on that.
jgarnett (we do have a simple one in udig BTW.
jgarnett http://udig.refractions.net/docs/uDig-DataAccessGuide.pdf
jgarnett Please read - it contains the outline of the "Registgry" class you were asking about.
jgarnett More docs here: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Documentation
jgarnett Kind of wish I printed them all out and gave you a copy when we met.
jmacgill oooh, catalog plugin looks fun
jmacgill acgill on #geotools (+n) * type /help for help
jmacgill acgill on #geotools (+n) * type /help for help
jmacgill erk
jgarnett That is the redo of the GeoServer FeatrueTypeInfo thing
jmacgill Object CatalogPlugin.open( File file )
jmacgill why does that return an Object?
jgarnett Because that is what we had in Jan.
jgarnett Let me link you to the improvement.
jgarnett However I thought you should check out the geotools (teir 0) or the Op intrefaces
jgarnett http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Programmer%27s+Guide
jgarnett Links to GISPlatform, Catalog and Tracking Changes
jgarnett (ie section 4 Working with the GIS Platform)
jgarnett Is where the good stuff is.
jgarnett Man I need to update docs.
jgarnett So should we post this as the IRC log
jgarnett So should we post this as the IRC log?
jmacgill don't see why not
jgarnett Your connection has been up longer then mine, I think I will need to ask you to post.
jmacgill can't, im in a command line client on a remote box
jgarnett And lets try blogging a little while we still know something.
jmacgill lets say their was no meeting
jgarnett I will post what I got then.