[Ubuntu] UbuntuGIS PSC Creation

[Alan Boudreault]

Alex,

Soliciting the nominations/suggestions from this list is a good idea. I 
will write a new small thread for this in the next days.

Best Regards,
Alan

On 13-11-09 05:39 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> PSC is generally self organizing from the community participants
> initially. Long term you can create a process where the community at
> large nominates people for it. At this point probably just need to pick
> a size (perhaps 5 people). You usually want a few committers, in this
> case packagers, someone from the user stand point might be good and even
> making sure we have 1 person who is both DebianGIS and Ubuntugis for
> coordination. Within those 5 people they can decide if there's a lead or
> some other voting system when there are non-consensus decisions to be made.
>
> So we could start with soliciting nominations/suggestions from this
> list. Then seeing how many people accept those nominations, and
> depending on how many we get then coming up with a way to make it a
> smaller group if there's too many.
>
> OSGeo incubation is about filling out a list of questions, opening a
> ticket. I might refer back to Frank that the Incubation committee might
> need to clarify questions for packaging projects that aren't really
> software in themselves. We won't have the same patent and IP issues as a
> software project.
> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html
>
> Once the foundation accepts Incubation a mentor is assigned to helps us
> meet the checklist for graduation.
> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
>
> Let's get this going, I've got lots of ideas for the ppa naming
> discussion below too.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 11/09/2013 01:27 PM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
>> I think we should create the PSC before trying to elaborate on any
>> development roadmap. Then, maybe check for OSGeo incubation? Does anyone
>> have experience with that? What's the best way to proceed and how we
>> determine PSC members?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Alan
>>
>> On 13-11-09 04:19 PM, Ivan Mincik wrote:
>>>
>>>      > 4. Still at least by my opinion, the PPA naming  stable,
>>>      testing, unstable
>>>      > is very confusing for all newcomers which automatically expect
>>>      the same
>>>      > behavior as in Debian. If this schema remains the same, or it
>>>      will change
>>>      > to something other, it needs clearly documented workflow how
>>>      packages
>>>      > migrates from testing, staging to production and how often and
>>>      under which
>>>      > circumstances production packages are upgraded.
>>>      >
>>>      I agree this is confusing and maybe the roadmap helps clear it up.
>>>
>>>
>>> I You think about it, my proposal to PPA structure is following:
>>>
>>> * ubuntugis-development - development versions of packages. Package
>>> version changes until they move to 'ubuntugis-staging'
>>>
>>> * ubuntugis-staging - staging versions which will be prepared to move
>>> at the time of each new ubuntu distribution release to 'ubuntugis-stable'
>>>
>>> * ubuntugis-stable - packages for all ubuntu distributions (LTS an non
>>> LTS) which will never change versions for a particular ubuntu
>>> distribution once released (only bugfixes available) - packages for
>>> each new distribution will be uploaded at the time of ubuntu
>>> distribution release
>>> Packages will be supported for each ubuntu distribution life time.
>>>
>>> * ubuntugis-backports - backported packages for LTS distributions. Can
>>> be upgraded as time goes on for all distributions
>>>
>>> Maintaining packages in 'ubuntugis-stable' for LTS distributions is
>>> long-term, responsible and boring task. This task I see as candidate
>>> for dedicated maintainer which could be financially supported by
>>> companies or organizations.
>>>
>>> I propose this structure change with release of 14.04 LTS.
>>>
>>> Ivan Mincik
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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