GSIP 138

GSIP 138 - Promote Vector Tiles to Extension

Overview

The vector tiles community module is seeing active use, this proposal captures the steps required to make it a supported extension.

Proposed By

David Blasby

Assigned to Release

This proposal is for GeoServer 2.11

State

(writing GSIP and reviewing code)

• Under Discussion
• In Progress
• Completed
• Rejected
• Deferred

Motivation

To supporting vector tiles as a WMS output format.

Proposal

The following checklist is from the developers guide:

• The module has at least a “handful” of users

  This module is included in the downstream OpenGeo Suite 4.8 release, and has been the subject of several feature requests on the mailing list.

• The module has a designated and active maintainer

  The original author Gabriel has asked David Blasby to look after pull requests.

• The module is considered “stable” by the majority of the PSC.

  TBD

• The module maintains 40% test coverage

  Cobertura reports 59% total code coverage. EclEmma reports 71.3% code coverage (2016-10-19).

• The module has no IP violations

  Boundless has signed a contributor license agreement covering all participants, and is aware of GPL terms.

• The module has a page in the user manual

  Added

• The maintainer has signed the GeoServer Contributor Agreement

  Boundless has signed a contributor license agreement covering all participants.

Other Tasks

• Ensure Copyright headers are present in all files

• Run code formatter to ensure coding style consistency

Feedback

Backwards Compatibility

N/A

Voting

Project Steering Committee:

• Alessio Fabiani:
• Andrea Aime: +1 (email)
• Ben Caradoc-Davies: +1
• Christian Mueller: +1 (email)
• Ian Turton: +1 (email)
• Jody Garnett: +1
• Jukka Rahkonen: +1 (email)
• Kevin Smith: +1
• Simone Giannecchini: +1 (email)

Committers:

Links

• https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/src/community/vectortiles
• http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/community/vectortiles/index.html