djlambert
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9 years ago I sincerely apologize for the silence and stagnation of library. The last 1.5+ years have been an epic whirlwind of activity in both my personal and professional life, and I've been coming up short on time to devote to it. I'm humbled by the fact that people find the library useful and desire for its continued development.
I originally created the library for use in another stalled project, of which it's an integral component. For this reason I've had some reluctance ceding sole control of my repository, as changes could potentially cause unintended issues there. I also understand the implications of concurrent independent development on multiple separate forks, and agree a single and actively maintained location would be best for the future of the library.
The first number of PR's submitted were without tests, using non PSR-2 code formatting, and not practicing the Object Calisthenics concepts I was working to follow. This caused an undesirable amount of work when merging. Contribution guidelines where something I wanted to define to document expectations for PR's and before considering adding additional administrators.
The last changes I had been working on (sandbox branch) was to separate some of the discreet functionality into separate libraries to allow using spatial objects from foreign libraries. In that effort I moved the string parser into creof/geo-parser and PHP objects into creof/geo. The WKID/WKT code was next on the list. There's a number of additional innovations I've thought through since my last commit, including support for 3D coordinates and cleaning up SRID handling.
I've finally reached a place where I'll be able to resume work on these projects in the immediate future. This may have little weight based on my activity and responsiveness to this point, which is completely understandable. Over the weekend I'll be working through the existing PR's, exploring changes made in the different forks, and thinking through how and where I want to focus my efforts and the contributions of others to the djlambert repo.
Thanks, Derek
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:09 PM, sadortun notifications@github.com wrote:
Hello Derek / Jon,
First of all, thanks for your contribution for the spatial library, it's very useful !
I think it would be a good idea for the project to be moved to a neutral location where a few moderators could perform the merge and restart the release cycle.
We will be using the spatial library heavily in the next two years and we need to have a stable origin on where to work from.
I would suggest to @djlambert https://github.com/djlambert and @ddproxy https://github.com/ddproxy merge their branches into a common 'neutral' project. Both major contributors would be administrator of the project.
I've created the organisation https://github.com/FriendsOfDoctrine/doctrine2-spatial to allow the project to continue growing and have active maintainers.
Let me know what you think, Samuel
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/djlambert/doctrine2-spatial/issues/56.
ddproxy
sadortun
Hello Derek / Jon,
First of all, thanks for your contribution for the spatial library, it's very useful !
We will be using the spatial library heavily in the next two years and we need to have a stable origin on where to work from.
I think it would be a good idea for the project to be moved to a neutral location where a few moderators could perform the merge and restart the release cycle. There is 10 PR+ waiting, and about 5 active forks which are all going in different directions...
I would suggest to @djlambert and @ddproxy merge their branches into a common 'neutral' project. Both major contributors would be administrator of the project.
I've created the organisation https://github.com/FriendsOfDoctrine/doctrine2-spatial to allow the project to continue growing and have active maintainers.
Let me know what you think, Samuel