[Incubator] [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Cameron Shorter]

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

On 27/02/2015 5:34 am, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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).
>>> -- 
>>> Jody
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> 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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