Community Edition

[wcmatthysen]

There is a need for a community edition of WorldWind. This will essentially be a community-managed fork that incorporates pull requests not belonging in the stable upstream version, but still being useful enough to the community that it should be maintained and kept up-to-date. See the discussion at pull-request #77 for some background on this.

[quonn77]

I agree with you, there is a lot of work that risk to be abandoned. I have improvement for handling HTTP Redirection, drawing ground line for air track, increase detail rendering of 2D maps so it would be nice to have a common shared community fork where all those improvements could be available. If I can help, I am available.

[wcmatthysen]

Good, I think we need a lot of people on-board to get the community-edition going. But, first we have to wait for the NASA guys to post the community contribution guidelines (this was mentioned in pull-request #77). The pull-request labels will be needed to determine what pull-requests are fit for the community-fork. In your case, you would probably have to then create pull-requests for the various additions in this repository. If it should go to the community-fork the NASA guys will then mark it with a label "community-edition" (or whatever label is decided) where it will then be picked up by the community-fork owners and merged into that repository.

[quonn77]

I believe, as already stated on the pull-request-77 that the community fork needs some members of the board from the NASA Team so we can better coordinate integration of derivative work into stable nwwj product.

[pdavidc]

@wcmatthysen Thanks for opening a dedicated issue for this discussion.

The NASA team is certainly on board with a coordinated community fork. We're very busy at the moment working on sponsored feature deliverables for the Android and Web SDKs, but have this on our Kanban board to address as soon as we can.

[wcmatthysen]

@pdavidc Any news? Would love to get started working on this.

[pdavidc]

Thanks for your patience. We haven't forgotten about this need. It's on our backlog of tasks to address after we finish our current round of sponsor-requested features.

[wcmatthysen]

I think a community edition is now more relevant than ever (just my 2 cents).

[quonn77]

I agree, it is time to create the community edition of Nasa World Wind. What is not clear is we are allowed to do this without a prior authorization by NASA. Il giorno ven 5 apr 2019 alle ore 10:30 Wiehann Matthysen < notifications@github.com> ha scritto:

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[wcmatthysen]

We do not need NASA's permission as far as I understand. It is open-source after all. We can just fork it and go our separate ways. It would be great to get their blessing though.

[wcmatthysen]

I see there is already an official community fork for WebWorldWind. Maybe we can reach out to @emxsys to host the community edition of WorldWindJava under the WorldWindEarth banner as well.

[arihunta]

Sounds good--I somehow totally missed the announcement of the suspension of the WorldWind projects.

I'd be happy to lend a hand if there's anything needed to get this initiative off the ground.

[caller]

perfect. we would be in as well. we have quite some potential contribution, (e.g. javaFX port) but since nasa was too refusive on merging anything, we gave up.