[Incubator] Wake up call

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Jody and others,

On May 24, 2007, at 1:56 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Yawn :-)
>
> Spring is here - amazing.
>
> I have been acting as the mentor for GeoNetwork and am pleased with  
> the progress if not the communication (when I email each month  
> stuff happens, and they are near being complete, but it does not  
> seem to be a focus for the community ... if I understand their  
> procedures correctly they set their focus once a year)....

Yes, we develop a yearly workplan and try to stick to that. This year  
will be more like a 1.5 year :-) We are finishing a major release of  
the project now (v2.1) and plan a second release (v2.2) in September,  
just before FOSS4G and another number of events. 2.2 will have added  
features more than core functionality and can as such be released  
relatively quick after 2.1.
After those releases we plan a workshop on GeoNetwork to set out our  
new work plan for 2007-2008.

>
> Near as I can tell the code providence review is the remaining task  
> - and their are no known issues getting that done other than time.

Yes, the one issues we identified with a dependency on an API with an  
incompatible license has been resolved by replacing the library with  
a compatible one. The dependencies still need to be documented online  
to show their license compatibility with the GeoNetwork code.

>
> How am I doing Jeroen? Did I miss anything ...
No, I think that's all correct. We have a lower priority to the  
incubation process because of the work on finalizing the release 2.1  
and the required updating of our operational systems to that version  
which is also due for mid september to keep us busy.

Ciao,
Jeroen

> Jody
> Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
>> Hey,
>> whats up? Incubation is stalled on several projects, mentors are fast
>> asleep. This will not do. Winter is over, wake up.
>>
>> What is the sanction for not getting things done?
>>
>> I will have to bring this up at the next board meeting, my  
>> proposal is to
>> turn off SVN and mailing lists of the respective projects. Be  
>> prepared to
>> get kicked out.
>>
>> Rest Beggars,
>> Grrrnulf.
>>
>> PS:
>> It would be nice to get something out of being a graduated project.
>> Currently it does not really pay off to go through all the  
>> trouble, so if
>> anybody has a good reason for why I am doing this please be so  
>> kind to
>> tell me.
>>
>> PPS:
>> It paid off for the Mapbender project, we have professionalized
>> development. As a result (well, at least I can pretend that this  
>> is the
>> reason) we have doubled the number of involved developers in the  
>> past half
>> year.
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/ 
>> Mapbender_Development_Sprint_Spring_07
>>
>> But for mature projects this is probably not a good reason.
>>
>>
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