It is also interesting to see the Apache incubator project list:
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/
On 02/26/2015 08:24 PM, Tom Kralidis wrote:
Agreed. I think there is an opportunity for OSGeo to become more
agile in this manner (hobu's recent Proj4 tweet really provided a wake
up call for me [1]):
- review principles/value proposition of becoming an OSGeo project
- update the process to be more agile for all involved (note that this
should not come at the cost of software quality)
Looking at Apache's project list [2] as an example tells me there is
an opportunity to grow.
..Tom
[1] https://twitter.com/howardbutler/status/569577495688663040
[2] http://projects.apache.org/indexes/alpha.html
[Incubator] [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure
Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 11:50:47 PST 2015
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I concur, this subject came up at the osgeo code-sprint last week - it is
very difficult project projects like MetaCRS and JTS to consider graduating
>from OSGeo due to our incubation requirements.
I would like to point out that projects should feel comfortable negotiating
a with the incubation committee. The MetaCRS projects may not be able to
demonstrate commercial viability using a range of contributing
organizations (our example in the checklist) but should be able to point
out the wide use downstream (so if PROJ goes under it is likely that the
work will in-fact continue).
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On 16 February 2015 at 05:47, Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
wrote:
On 2/16/2015 6:44 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
Hi,
I would like to dig a bit more into the topic "more fine incubation"
procedure and former "OSGeo Labs" (now it has no name is slowly
forgotten in past, but you can find more at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs)
I would like to start talk about it a bit (I suggest incubator mailing
list), prepared wiki page (with confusing name):
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/5-star-rating
Scope: to re-new OSGeo Labs, make the incubation process easier for all
of us, with more little steps (except for one big). Projects could flow
between the steps "up" and "down", related to their current living phase.
I hope, this would help to the community to get oriented, would allow
more projects to join in. Work for incubation committee and mentors
could be even less (some projects will remain in beta). It's also
related to the "certification" topic (even not people, but software).
Jachym
This makes a lot of sense to me. I am involved with a lot of smaller
projects that are valuable but unlikely to be able to stand on their own
because the community is weak.
pagc (geocoding) - this is all but dead as a project but out of it came a
core piece of technology the has been moved into postGIS Geocoder
pgRouting - driving directions and vehicle routing problems, we have
contributed 8+ GSoC mentors to OSGeo over the past years, but it has been
hard to get funding and volunteers to support ongoing development and
project releases. We have looked at incubation, but we do not have a strong
enough community to be able to graduate.
It would be good to have a way to foster projects like this and to look
for opportunities to merge smaller projects into larger ones that where
their might be a good fit. I think that we need to better recognize that
there will be projects that might not be able to stand on their own but
that they may also be fertile ground for development of good technology and
that mentoring and redirecting these projects could be a good way to
harvest this.
Anyway, something to think about ...
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