Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-08 Thread Bruce Bannerman
On 9/06/10 10:40 AM, "P Kishor" wrote: > The last thing that anyone wants is for a major player to implement a poor > quality application and have problems with the bad publicity that would > follow. > > We cannot expect that knowledgeable OS Spatial people will always be doing > product selecti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-08 Thread P Kishor
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: > Cameron, > > Well stated. > > As an organisation that is implementing Open Source spatial, we are looking > to applications that have graduated from OSGeo Incubation as an indication > of quality. > > If this is not the case, as has been ind

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-08 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Cameron, Well stated. As an organisation that is implementing Open Source spatial, we are looking to applications that have graduated from OSGeo Incubation as an indication of quality. If this is not the case, as has been indicated in this thread, then IMHO, we as OSGeo need to devise an appr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-06 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Jason / Cameron, >From the potential utiliser / implementer viewpoint: I'd like to think that any project that has graduated OSGeo Incubation could be considered a quality project with all of the vectors described by Andrea. This proposed rating system implies that this may not be the case. Co