[GRASS-PSC] GRASS Incubation Progress Report

[Arnulf Christl]

On Mon, March 5, 2007 18:03, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Per the Mentor Guidelines at:
>
>    http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/mentor.html
>
> I'd like the mentors to report to the committee on the incubation
> status of the various projects.  The reports will presumably point to the
> official status wiki pages for some of the content, so I think the report
> should summarize progress and roadblocks.
>
> Best regards,
> --

Hello,
reporting from GRASS incubation, see also [1] and [2]. Most issues have
been resolved. From my humble perspective GRASS is a 300k ton oil-tanker
and taking that into account it is moving with quite remarkable speed. No
pun intended.

There are two open issues that need to be resolved before we intend to
apply for graduation. These are:

1)
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GRASS_Incubation_Progress#Community_Functioning
* "See RFC1 for the proposal. Th proposal is fine but still pending, they
never got around to voting. I proposed to vote on RFC1 in their next
regular meeting.

2)
There are 148 files as of 2007.03.07 left without reference to the
license. Markus is working on them, so this will not keep us much longer
either. Most files have been vetted twice before, once moving from Public
Domain / GNU GPL1 to GNU GPL2 and then to be compatible with Debian. All
of this is very well documented, take a glimpse here (goes back to 95):
http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g50history/

Due to the sheer quantity of files they (well, to be honest - Markus is
doing the bulkwork) are using a semi script based approach. First a list
of files is created that miss license information and/or contributor
references. These are extracted and spot checked manually for issues.
Another script extracts the real contributor names from CVS to replace the
nicks. The code that I spot checked was spotless. Pun intended.

I was intrigued by their QA, I think that they have some quite interesting
approaches. Some might find these links helpful:
A monster:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-qa/2007-March/003550.html
Potential clones:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-qa/2007-March/003553.html

I am sure to have learned more from the GRASS project than I could be help
to them.

When the last modules are checked and RFC1 is officially adopted by the
PSC  I would like to propose GRASS for graduation. Please start to check
documents now and come back here with any doubts or blockers that you
might encounter so that we can proceed efficiently once the above issues
are resolved.

Best regards,
Arnulf

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GRASS_Incubation_Progress
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GRASS_Provenance_Review

-- 
Arnulf Christl
http://www.wheregroup.com