I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this. I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is an embarrassing bottleneck).
Rather than a "star" system I think we can highlight how far along in the checklist each project is. -- Jody Garnett On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com> wrote: > We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'. > > It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the > relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change > to rules. > > From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in some > cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals that > we as a community aspire to. > > When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable > credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of > honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to > dilute this? > > While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for > wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that > follows)? > > If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more formal > methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more > appropriate. > > Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if we > deem it appropriate**.....? > > Are there any volunteers? > > Bruce > > [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html > > > =============== > > I recently came across a number of "Open Source Maturity Methodologies", > which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or > referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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