<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Peter,<br><br></div>I appreciate that there is often a lot of higher priority work that leaves less time for our volunteer efforts.<br><br></div>We'll just have to chip away as we can.<br><br></div>I noted the comment below from an earlier email from you to the Rasdaman Users list [5].<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><i>"When it comes to management we still have the additional burden of OSGeo
incubation where at least one incubation voter tends to request
significant additional work which seems to transcend the incubation work
item list (and possibly the workload of other incubating projects)."</i><br></div><br></div><div>I was going to let this public comment pass, but after some reflection decided that this response is warranted.<br></div><div><br></div>I don't believe that the Rasdaman Project is being singled out and unrealistic demands being made. I don't really see anything different in the request for additional information at [3] from my original advice, e.g. at [1].<br><br></div><div>I also don't believe that the Incubation process should be viewed as a burden, but as an opportunity to implement appropriate governance and processes that will help a project to thrive as a sustainable open source community, particularly should a key project sponsor decide to remove their sponsorship. <br><br></div><div>I can see very good potential for Rasdaman as an open source project. That is why I have invested considerable effort over the last five years as project mentor.<br></div><div><br></div>I believe that Rasdaman is ready for graduation from incubation. We just need to be able to convince the other members of the Incubation Committee as well. <br><br>I don't believe that this should be very hard. We had a lot of positive feedback from our last attempt at graduation. See the discussion at [2].<br><br><br></div><div>So where to from here:<br></div><div><br>I find my summary from May last year at [1] still relevant.<br><pre style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>"- provide a short succinct statement that explains the details of how
Rasdaman meets each requirement.
Much of what we will need to reference has already been documented on the
Rasdaman wiki. We do not need to reproduce the wiki content in the
document. Just make the case for each criterion and refer readers to the
appropriate URL for more information."</i>
</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cameron's email from [3] provides some specific items to address.<br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My email at [4] outlines what I believe as the way forward.<br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm happy to look at an alternate approach that you may wish to suggest.<br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I appreciate that this may be frustrating and that addressing items may take a little time, given competing priorities.<br><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bruce<br></span></pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div>[1] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-May/002423.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-May/002423.html</a> <br><div><br>[2] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-October/thread.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-October/thread.html</a> <br><div><div><div><div><div><br>[3] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-October/002522.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-October/002522.html</a> <br><br>[4] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-October/002523.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2014-October/002523.html</a><br> <br><div><div class="gmail_extra">[5] <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rasdaman-users/7oEac_CHxfo">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rasdaman-users/7oEac_CHxfo</a> <br><br>________________________________________<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
From: <a href="mailto:rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com</a> [<a href="mailto:rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com</a>] On Behalf Of Peter Baumann [<a href="mailto:baumann@rasdaman.com" target="_blank">baumann@rasdaman.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2015 6:02 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<span>Subject: Re: [rasdaman-users] rasdaman installation<br>
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When it comes to management we still have the additional burden of OSGeo incubation where at least one incubation voter tends to request significant additional work which seems to transcend the incubation work item list (and possibly the workload of other incubating projects).<br>
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