[OSGeo-Board] FDO - Distinct project or part of MapGuide?

[Gary Lang]

Yeah. The intent has always been to have it be its own project. It's
just not ready right now.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:58 AM
To: board at board.osgeo.org
Cc: Robert Bray
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] FDO - Distinct project or part of MapGuide?



Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I see there is an http://fdo.osgeo.org domain. FDO (Feature Data 
> Objects) is
> the data access layer used by MapGuide OS as well as some other
Autodesk
> products (I think).  Roughly speaking it plays a similar role to
GDAL/OGR.
>  From my slanted point of view, I am at least as excited about the
open
> sourcing of FDO as I am about MapGuide.
I think I'm more excited ;)

> 
> But the question I have is whether FDO is considered a distinct top
level
> project of the foundation or whether it is just a sub-activity of
MapGuide
> that happens to get a top level domain.   If it is to be treated as 
> distinct
> project with it's own PSC, then I think it ought to be added to our 
> projects
> list, initiated into incubation and so forth.  If it is just
considered a
> subproject of MapGuide OS, subject to the MapGuide OS PSC then that is
fine
> with me too.
I think it would make sense in the longer term to have it live as it's 
own project.  But as a sub project of mapguide could probably help 
initially, especially in terms of the community requirement for 
incubation.  I imagine that FDO may more easily get contributors, or at 
the very least, the two projects combined will get enough contributors, 
and it may be harder if they are split up.  But Apache seems to have 
migration paths for sub-projects to migrate to top level, which I think 
is a good model for us to follow, and would work well in this case.

Chris

> 
> Best regards,

-- 
Chris Holmes
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