[OSGeo-Discuss] Does osgeo provide infrastructure for non-incubating projects?

[Fernando González]

Thanks both for your answers and sorry for the delay (I've been traveling).

Steve, sorry, I think I haven't expressed myself clear at all. I'm
interested in osgeo as organization but I'm afraid the project is not
mature enough to enter incubation. I think I could find free hosting
easily, but I wouldn't like to migrate some time later again.

Frank, I've read Project Evaluation Criteria and, in my opinion, we
are able to fulfill all the requirements in short term except of
substantial user/developer community. Recently, some organizations got
interested in helping to develop the project which *could* solve the
problem of communities.

I can only foresee two problems. First, I don't know if osgeo may be
interested in a GIS specific language even if it ever matches the
requirements. Second, for its very nature, I don't think it is
possible to create a big developer community because the used
technologies are not easy to learn, but I hope I'm wrong.

If these problems are not such, we would be *very grateful* to use an
osgeo mailing list. We could keep the paid infrastructure while the
project evolves and it becomes clear if it can enter incubation or
not.

Hope I've been clear enough. I find it difficult to explain the
problem so don't hesitate to ask for anything you don't understand.

Best regards.



On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> On 4/5/2011 7:43 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>> On 11-04-05 04:59 AM, Fernando González wrote:
>>>
>>> The first step is to
>>> create a work group to learn GGL2 technologies so we need a mailing
>>> list and a public SCM (we work with a private one currently).
>>>
>>> Is it possible to get such infrastructure from osgeo? Some people in
>>> GearScape mailing list suggested to ask here for a trac instance and
>>> even to apply for incubation. I like the incubation idea but I guess
>>> we're not so big yet. Would it be possible at least to start by being
>>> hosted? I think GGL2 is somewhat innovative and it could be
>>> interesting for osgeo to include such a project if it ever succeeds.
>>
>> Fernando,
>>
>> Yes, OSGeo does sometimes provide mailing list, Trac and SVN services for
>> non-OSGeo (ie. non-incubating) projects. For mailing lists the barrier is
>> quite low. For Trac/SVN you need someone on the system administration
>> committee who is willing and able to do the work. That proponent then
>> makes a motion on the SAC mailing list, and once passed provides notice
>> to the board in case there are concerns. Generally speaking the hard
>> part of the process is finding someone willing and able to do the work.
>> The rest just slightly delays things.
>>
>> We (on SAC) are generally more supportive of projects that we think have
>> a prospect of going through incubation at some point or that are closely
>> related to existing OSGeo projects.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>
> Fernando,
>
> You might also look at http://code.google.com/ or sourceforge, both provide
> these services if you can not get a SAC advocate for your project.
>
> Best regards,
>  -Steve
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