[Incubator] FDO Incubation Progress Reports

[Daniel Morissette]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> Per the Mentor Guidelines at:
> 
>   http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/mentor.html
> 
> I'd like the mentors to report to the committee on the incubation
> status of the various projects.  The reports will presumably point to the
> official status wiki pages for some of the content, so I think the report
> should summarize progress and roadblocks.
> 

FDO has just entered incubation after MapGuide graduated a week or so 
ago. Some of the incubation work has been done at the same time as 
MapGuide, so the project has a good head start, but there is still work 
to do. Here is a status update:

1- Incubation Status:

FDO Incubation Status page not created yet (or I could not find it 
anyway). When it's created a link should be added in 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Incubation_Committee#Progress

2- Source code Provenance review:

The work done so far is at 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FDO_Provenance_Review but I have not 
reviewed it yet.

3- Project Steering Committee

There is a draft PSC document at http://fdo.osgeo.org/psc.html. 
Apparently the PSC has not been officially formed yet, but from 
following the mapguide-internals list they seem to operate as a 
pseudo-PSC already, with motions and votes on the list once in a while, 
etc. This will be sorted out soon I'm sure.

I followed the fdo-internals list for a little while and didn't get the 
feeling that the FDO team is as open and active on the public list as 
the mapguide team for instance. It could also just be a false impression 
because it's a smaller group and there is less work and traffic 
happening on that list... or maybe because until now I was just lurking 
and not trying to make sense of the fdo-internals traffic? We'll see.

That's all I have for now.

Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
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