[Incubator] New Mentor for MapGuide

[Frank Warmerdam]

Robert Bray wrote:
> Fellow Incubators,
> 
>  
> 
> Now that Daniel has moved on I need a new mentor for MapGuide’s 
> incubation. I’d like to get this process rolling again right away. Any 
> volunteers out there?

Bob,

Paul Spencer offered to mentor MapGuide, and given his experience with
MapGuide I think he would be great for the job.  If you have no objection
we should put a motion to this effect to the mailing list.

> On a side topic the Feature Data Objects API is just about ready to go 
> fully open. Since MapGuide is FDOs only open source user at the moment I 
> am thinking of managing the two projects under a single umbrella (e.g. 
> one PSC for both). Does anyone have any issues with that or reasons for 
> not doing it that way?

I think this is reasonable, but I am interested in some broader discussion
of the implications.  For instance, would be be reasonable for GDAL to
consider libgeotiff as being managed by the GDAL PSC?

Are the FDO folks OK with this approach?

Best regards,
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