[SAC] Project Hosting

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

Hi,

pgRouting has requested project hosting via OSGeo:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/561

In general, I believe policy has been that a SAC member basically has
to step up to support organizations if they want to be hosted by 
OSGeo (followed by rubber-stamping by the board, afaik).

I'd like to suggest that in general, we should encourage projects
which have a large, healthy community to pursue incubation (at least
in the form of creating an application for incubation/demonstrating
intent to pursue incubation). pgRouting is a mature project, 
well-documented, with a significant history in the OSGeo community
(participation at conferences, etc.) There is no reason they
should not be pursuing incubation that I can see.

If a project is mature enough to be considered for incubation,
but is not interested in pursuing incubation, I feel like SAC
should take care in taking that project on as a hosting 
candidate.

For projects that are small enough that incubation is not 
appropriate -- like TileCache/FeatureServer, as well as others that
have requested incubation -- I'm fine with the current process,
but I think that we should really do our best to encourage projects
like pgRouting to become a part of the community via incubation,
rather than just taking advantage of OSGeo's hosting capabilities.

I'd be interested in any other opinions on this point.

Best Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia