[Board] mapfish project status

[Till Adams]

Dear Jody,

I am also little surprised about the movememtns in the mapfish project,
for me it looks little like a "take over" of the "old" Mapfish-project.
Wehen Mapfish applied for incubation (around 2009/2010), I was voted
into the PSC and I accompanied MapFish through this process. To be
honest, since our incubation not much happened in PSC.

On the Github "https://github.com/mapfish/mapfish/wiki/Community_PSC", I
am still listed as a PSC-member, I never stepped back and AFAIK I was
not asked to migrate the project into a new one. So, still, this
mapfish-project is for me the incubated project and it seems, that
nothing happens any more here.

In general I wonder, that projects once they are incubated, never get a
check towards license/code again, even if they move on a completely new
platform and code-base. This may open the door to exactly, what we want
to prevent: That projects get hijacked by one single company.

Loking on the new github pages
(http://github.com/camptocamp/c2cgeoportal), there is no PSC listed at all.

I would suggest to invite the new geomapfish project to become an
OSGeo-community project and, I agree with Primin, the (old) Mapfish
should be retired.

Just my 2 Cents,

Till




Am 20.11.19 um 08:18 schrieb Pirmin Kalberer:
> Hi Jody,
>
> On 19.11.19 01:02, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Earlier this year we places several osgeo projects that were not
>> communicating (or no longer meeting osgeo expectations) into the
>> OSGeo community program.
>>
>> One project that asked for some more time was mapfish:
>>
>> * The mapfish.org <http://mapfish.org>http://www.mapfish.org/ website
>> uses the old logo and documents MapFish 2.2 released in 2016
>> * The osgeo project page was never filled in
>> https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mapfish/ (1)
>>
>> The good news is that the the project is very much alive, has a new
>> GeoMapFish name, website <https://geomapfish.org>, code base
>> <http://github.com/camptocamp/c2cgeoportal>, and a new development
>> team (indeed I am not sure if any current members took part in the
>> incubation process).
>
> This is quite surprising news for a former MapFish commiter. I wasn't
> aware that there is any relaton between the MapFish project and the
> c2cgeoportal project besides the new name.
> MapFish had a very compelling architecture with a clear separation of
> server and client side with a JSON API in between. As far as I
> remember, C2C later decided to start a new project with a classic
> monolithic approach. On our part we kept the Ruby on Rails server
> implementation, which is actively developed under the name Mapfish
> Appserver. It's not a real community project, since it's mainly
> developed by the Canton of Zurich on their internal Git server today.
>
>>
>> On the bright side Emmanuel and the MapFisk PSC produced a page for
>> the AGM (slide 59) which is great and really improves communication.
>>
>> My question though is simple - should we remove MapFish as an OSGeo
>> project, and invite GeoMapFish to apply to the OSGeo Community
>> program, or should we ask this PSC to quick march this project
>> through the incubation checklist requirements to preserve continuity?
>
> Since only MapFish Print is still alive, which is a Java application
> inherited from the CartoWeb project, the MapFish project should be
> officially retired.
>
> Regards
> Pirmin
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