[Incubator] Fwd: Follow Up on PyCSW Application: Community Requirements?

[Landon Blake]

Let me shoot an e-mail over to the pycsw Team. I'll copy the list.

Landon

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Seven <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
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> Am 2013-01-8 20:11, schrieb Daniel Morissette:
>> Not sure if a formal motion is required, but I am +1 on your
>> proposal.
>>
>> Daniel
>
> Same here, so far I think we only made a motion to accept a project.
> But I am also +1 on moving to Labs and waiting another round.
>
> It would be nice to learn whether the project is also happy with this.
>
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
>
>> On 13-01-08 2:19 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
>>> Are we going to hear from the rest of the committee members
>>> about pycsw's application?
>>>
>>> I'd like to close the loop with them.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Landon
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Landon Blake
>>> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:11 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Incubator] Follow Up on PyCSW Application:
>>> Community Requirements? To: Cameron Shorter
>>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think Cameron's requirements sound reasonable. I'm +1.
>>>
>>> After we've tallied the votes, I'll let pycsw know our final
>>> decision. If they aren't admitted to incubation at this time,
>>> I'll work with them on community building in the incubation
>>> labs.
>>>
>>> Hopefully we can get votes from the other committee members this
>>> week.
>>>
>>> Landon
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Cameron Shorter
>>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Landon, Thanks for pushing this motion through. To facilitate a
>>>> decision, I propose a motion:
>>>>
>>>> Motion: That PyCSW is showing a lot of early promise toward
>>>> becoming an OSGeo project, but before officially moving into
>>>> OSGeo Incubation, we would like to see the project mature, in
>>>> particular we'd like to see a greater breadth of community,
>>>> especially a greater breath of organisations contributing to
>>>> the project, before the project starts incubation. As such I
>>>> propose that PyCSW is not included into incubation yet.
>>>>
>>>> +1 Cameron Shorter
>>>>
>>>> Background: * Metrics: https://www.ohloh.net/p/pycsw * I'd be
>>>> looking to see something like 3+ different organisations
>>>> providing sustained support for the project (as sponsors or
>>>> providing developers) for 1+ years by the time a project
>>>> completes incubation.
>>>>
>>>> Of note, I think it valuable for projects to start building up
>>>> the incubation processes such that passing through incubation
>>>> will be easy in future.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 01/01/13 04:43, Landon Blake wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to follow up on the PyCSW application for
>>>>> incubation. I believe I can summarize the current situation
>>>>> in this way:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) PyCSW has applied for incubation. 2) They have a willing
>>>>> mentor. 3) They are waiting for a response from our committee
>>>>> on concerns about their level of community involvement.
>>>>>
>>>>> We need to get back to the project team with a decision on
>>>>> their incubation application. If we feel the project isn't
>>>>> ready for incubation because they lack an active community,
>>>>> we should make that clear to them. If this is our decision,
>>>>> we should also:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Make our criteria for evidence of an active community
>>>>> clear, so the project can set some goal posts. 2) Invite the
>>>>> project to contact us with regular updates on their progress
>>>>> towards these goals.
>>>>>
>>>>> If, on the other hand, we feel that communnity building is
>>>>> something they can do DURING incubation, we should accept
>>>>> their application and address this concern with their mentor
>>>>> so he can work with the project team to address it before
>>>>> incubation graduation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Either way, I think we owe the pycsw project team a decision
>>>>> soon.
>>>>>
>>>>> Landon _______________________________________________
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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