[Incubator] Incubation Progress Page

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Brookshier wrote:
> This is a good question. The whole idea of a project joining the 
> foundation is to be under a common set of managed tools.

Daniel,

I wouldn't at all agree that being under the same set of managed tools
was the "whole idea" of the foundation.

> OSGeo.org is the primary site 
> for voting and such, ...

Was there a voting mechanism in the CN platform I missed?


> so this does confuse things a bit. The foundation 
> can throw its weight around by its size and being offsite can impact 
> both registered user numbers and site hits.
 >
> Overall the key point is that you are not really a 100% part of the 
> system unless you are in it. At Java.net we have a logo-exchange 
> arrangement that shows you are a member. We could do the same thing, but 
> as stated, there are disadvantages. I understand your need for 
> independence, and that you already have a site. It is up to you on how 
> you proceed.

There is certain an erosion of the coherence of OSGeo as a brand and as
a group when projects are entirely offsite.  Within the incubator I think
we need to wrestle with what, if any, requirements we would make on projects
to be "on" the osgeo.org web site and tools.  My personal opinion is that we
should not be trying to force the issue, but that we need to do something
to provide some sense of being part of the foundation for member projects.

For GDAL I have been successful getting my web site at http://gdal.osgeo.org.
I am contemplating moving my CVS tree into an osgeo.org CVS tree but I am
concerned about the disruption with new CVS userids and so forth.  I would
contemplate moving the mailing lists, or at least perhaps hosting new
announce and user mailing lists at osgeo.org.  I'm not at all interested in
losing my existing bugzilla instance.

I think each project, as part of their "incubation project status" should list
the services they are willing to migrate, and how that is going.  But I
don't see that we can force anything in this regard.

PS. I don't see any reason why code would need to be in an OSGeo SVN
tree to be considered valid for our purposes.

Best regards,
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