[Incubator] MapGuide ready to graduate?

[Paul Spencer]

Steve,

DMSG currently has three people with commit rights although we work  
primarily around the edges of the core rather than tackling any core  
issues.  I believe that Frank, Haris and Mateusz are committers on at  
least the FDO project (which is separate, I know, but currently  
tightly bound). There may be others that I am not aware of.

Most of the active core development on MapGuide has been, and  
continues to be, funded by Autodesk and is implemented by their  
staff.  FDO is a little more diversified, though.  DMSG is starting  
to get involved in some of the core MapGuide improvements, for  
instance Assefa is going to be working on the cartographic  
symbolization improvements RFC.  I think it will take some time for  
people to become comfortable even volunteering to contribute, just  
because of the scope of the code base.  Bob and the rest of the  
Autodesk team have been very welcoming and helpful to us and to  
others contributing in other areas and I think the intention is to  
attract other outside developers to ensure the health of the project.

Cheers

Paul

On 6-Feb-07, at 6:12 PM, Steve Lime wrote:

> How many different orgs have commit rights?
>
> Steve
>
>>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> 2/6/2007 4:34 PM >>>
> I believe the MapGuide project is about ready to graduate. Here is an
> update on MapGuide's incubation status, I would welcome feedback from
> the members of IncCom before making a formal proposal to graduate
> MapGuide.
>
> The MapGuide Incubation Status document is available at:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/MapGuide_Incubation_Status and the
> provenance review has been completed and can be found at
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/MapGuide_Provenance_Review
>
> Other than some minor issues to resolve with respect to the provenance
>
> review (probably not a blocker since I believe for instance Mapbender
> still had some open issues on that front at time of graduation), I
> believe the project has met most of the graduation criterias listed at
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Project_Graduation_Checklist, except
> for
> #9, the automated build process which is currently internal at ADSK.
> The
> issue tracker is currently unavailable but this is temporary, they  
> used
>
> the CN system before and are working to get setup on OSGeo's Trac
> server
> now.
>
> As a mentor, I have witnessed that the MapGuide project has a healthy
> and active PSC (http://mapguide.osgeo.org/psc.html) and a good set of
> development guidelines and processes (see
> http://mapguide.osgeo.org/developer.html).
>
> Mapguide also has a fairly active user community with about 400  
> members
>
> on the mapguide-users list and 120 members on mapguide-internals.
>
> Are there other criterias that need to be addressed before we can
> propose MapGuide for graduation?
>
> Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/
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