Annual Report 2012

Key Accomplishments

• The project has switched from subversion to git and is now hosted at GitHub
• GeoTools 8.0 was released
  
  • First major release after a 1.5 year drought
  • Amazing release with Java 6, join support, temporal filters, detailed function descriptions
• A total of 10 GeoTools releases made over the course of the year
• The project has switched to a predictable time-boxed release model featuring: six month release cycle and stable release issued each month.
  
  • Extensive build infrastructure improvements with automated release scripts to help us meet this aggressive goal
• Extensive FeatureCollection cleanup and Quality Assurance run slated to land for the next major release

Areas for Improvement 

• Attract participation from downstream projects
• Coordinate with downstream projects around release testing
• Contribution License questions have provided some confusion this year

Opportunities to Help

• Volunteers needed to review pull-requests
• The transition to GitHub has certainty paid off, join the team and help us keep up!

Outlook for 2013

• Enjoying active success, and your participation