[Incubator] Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] OSGeo iccubation report - great now I need to check up on you :-)

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Jody,

On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Hi everyone ... it has been a couple of months and it is time for  
> me to
> report back to the committee on our progress.
>
> So far my job has as mentor has been relaxing and easy; but also not
> very helpful (you have not asked questions!). While it is not my  
> roll to
> be an active in doing the work associated with the incubation  
> process I
> would like check that all the information you require is available.
>
> There is a couple of options:
> a) OSGeo iccubation is a "nice to have" but not associated with  
> anyones
> deadlines or job - this is the case for GeoTools and it has made our
> iccubation process long slow and difficult. Incubation is more of a
> marketing / community exercise and detracts from the aims of a
> development list (producing great software).

I think our situation is fairly close to the GeoTools one. Nice to  
have sounds a bit uninterested I must say :-) But for sure, it has  
not been a high priority to run through the whole process. I would  
like to complete it fairly quickly now and think that the biggest  
work ahead is the code review. But maybe that is more due to not  
exactly knowing how involved it is rather than it being a big job :-)

> b) I could be using the wrong avenue for communication - this is a
> development list after all - am I making contact with the correct  
> group
> of people? As example maybe there is an IRC meeting, Skype conference
> call or some other venue that I should be making myself available for?
>
> Regardless, lets update our status pages to reflect what is going on.
> One thing I recommend is that you take the status page off of the  
> OSGeo
> wiki (because the development community will no go through the trouble
> of signing up in yet another location) and make it part of your code
> base! Either on a GeoNetwork wiki or right into svn along side your
> build file.

I updated the page recently and updated the missing links to mailing  
list and SVN now. We do not have a WIKI in our Community website at  
present. I'll make a clear link to the incubation page from the site  
though. I don't see the account creation on OSGEO as a major obstacle  
for getting other contributions to the page.

The plan is to complete incubation in the first half of this year. We  
are looking for a best moment to do the code review. We are currently  
focussing on the release of version 2.1 and it may proof most  
effective to go through the process once that code has stabilized.

In the mean time, we try to highlight OSGEO incubation and the  
connection between the GeoNetwork opensource project and the  
foundation any time that is appropriate.

Hope that helps a bit.
Ciao,
Jeroen

>
> In terms of facilitation here is the link to the existing status and
> providence review pages:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoNetwork_Incubation_Status
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php? 
>> title=GeoNetwork_Provenance_Review&action=edit
> In response to the page I will start up an email discussion on each
> topic ...
> Cheers,
> Jody
>
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