[OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] New incubation procedure

[Jody Garnett]

If we could add to your list:

4. Attract more volunteers to incubation

--
Jody Garnett

On 11 March 2015 at 06:05, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever,
>
> I would like to achieve:
>
> 1 - attract more projects to osgeo umbrella
> 2 - attract little projects to osgeo umbrella
> 3 - define, what should happen after successful incubation, because I do
> not believe in "and lived happily ever after" - to become the project,
> certain level (checklist) has to be reached. But what if the project looses
> it's community?
>
> The "still-callled-star" system I started to work on, was inspired by
> Cameron notes (just FYI)
>
> J
>
> st 11. 3. 2015 v 1:12 odesílatel Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> napsal:
>
> I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this.
>>
>> I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is
>> producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is
>> an embarrassing bottleneck).
>>
>> Rather than a "star" system I think we can highlight how far along in the
>> checklist each project is.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman <
>> bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation
>>> Procedure'.
>>>
>>> It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the
>>> relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change
>>> to rules.
>>>
>>> From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in
>>> some cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals
>>> that we as a community aspire to.
>>>
>>> When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable
>>> credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of
>>> honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to
>>> dilute this?
>>>
>>> While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for
>>> wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that
>>> follows)?
>>>
>>> If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more
>>> formal methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more
>>> appropriate.
>>>
>>> Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if
>>> we deem it appropriate**.....?
>>>
>>> Are there any volunteers?
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html
>>>
>>>
>>> ===============
>>>
>>> I recently came across a number of "Open Source Maturity Methodologies",
>>> which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or
>>> referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies
>>>
>>>
>>>
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