[Incubator] MapFish Incubation

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Gary, and MapFish PSC,

Congratulations for making it through this process... I'm interested in 
the answers to Jody's questions and would have a few more 
questions/comments:

- From the http://www.mapfish.org/ site, which should be the natural 
home of the project from the average new user's point of view, I could 
not find any link to the source code of the software (the SVN 
repository, or even the tarballs)... and no link to the trac.mapfish.org 
dev/community site, mailing lists, IRC or other support resources 
either. I would advise linking to the trac site at a minimum from the 
www.mapfish.org site so that new visitors can find that information more 
easily than by going back to Google.

- I find it interesting (and unfortunate) that the project manages code 
under three licenses (BSD, GPL and LGPL)... not a blocker, but 
definitely something that can be confusing to new users and can become a 
FAQ in the future.

- In the source code review (rails plugin section), you list 
./print/print-standalone.jar as being BSD licensed... the description 
says it's a JAR package of the print module... which is GPL unless I'm 
mistaken... Did I miss something?

- Gary: as the mentor, could you please comment on whether the project 
has an open and active users and developers community? I believe it does 
and the MapFish incubation status page says so, but I'd like to hear the 
opinion of an observer not on the project that has been following them 
for several months. More specifically, does the developer community work 
in an open (i.e. on public lists, not behind closed doors) and healthy 
way, open to input, new members and reaching consensus on decisions?

My last point is derived from the graduation checklist at 
http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html 
... and one of the most important items to check in my opinion (after 
license and code provenance review of course).

Daniel


On 11-07-27 04:41 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Okay grinding through this stuff
>
> - you have a wiki (is it your docs? what license are contributions made
> under - can I reprint or quote it? Often this is CC or FDL)
> - the definition section was not used; kill it
> - use of google docs to track issues was interesting :-) good idea
> - I had not herd of ZPL before
> - What does "code inspired by" mean? Is there a cut and paste? or did
> you just borrow the design?
> - you have a few things marked as "image does not include code"; you can
> still confirm that you have the rights to distribute the image
> (for geotools we had to kill some of our sample data as we could not
> sort out where it had come from)
> (this is actually the point of the review; as it is some thing you
> cannot record in the header)
> - amusing to see jesseeichar groovy code (thought he gave that up for
> scala). You mention it is a copy and "CC" ... you don't mean creative
> commons do you?
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Friday, 22 July 2011 at 2:22 AM, Gary Sherman wrote:
>
>> Committee Members:
>>
>> The MapFIsh group has completed the required incubation documents and
>> code review (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapFish_Incubation_Status).
>> Please take a look at the documents with an eye towards graduation.
>> The MapFish project would like to complete the incubation process
>> prior to the FOSS4G conference.
>>
>> -gary (MapFish mentor)
>>
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