[Incubator] Infrastructure Migration

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Tyler (and Jo?):

I sent the document on to the geotools community, but do not see much to 
interest them in terms of their current infrastructure short comings and 
needs. I am partly at fault, as by not taking part in articulating the 
requirements there is little to introduce the geotools community. 
Currently we are focused on making sure any OGSEO volunteer time gets 
put towards the incubation process.

I will let the email circulate for a day, here are some shortfalls that 
may be met:
- maven repository (a highly structured download site suitable for abuse 
by build tools)
- wiki w/ internationalization support (to host user guides etc...), 
must be able to export to pdf
- the usual build and smoke test machine, with artifacts placed into 
above maven repo

We are not against collaboration on infrastructure, apologies if our 
silence has been taken for lack of interest. I always run into the 
difficulty that there are other infrastructure projects out there 
(codehaus, source forge, tigris) and I would rather focus OSGEO effort 
on other problems. I admit that common branding is an attractive goal, 
and that it does close the loop back into infrastructure.

Cheers,
Jody

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Hi all,
> Jo and I have taken another round of edits on the infrastructure 
> migration proposal.  This document will serve as the basis for 
> implementing core technologies and acquiring the required funding to 
> make it all happen in an effective manner.
>
> Project leads - please review this, circulate amongst your communities 
> if needed, and provide any comments.  If you have no comments or 
> concerns, could you please just provide an informal thumbs +1 vote, so 
> we know you've at least looked at it :)
>
> We assume that some projects will still be interested in maintaining 
> their separate infrastructure, but our hope is that we can have 
> something that is solid enough to entice more projects to collaborate 
> on a common infrastructure in the medium to long term.
>
> Please provide comments within the next 4 days if possible (i.e. by 
> Wed, Sept. 27th), so they can be incorporated for the board to review 
> later in the week.
>
> Thank you,
> Tyler and Jo
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