[Incubator] OpenLayers graduation time

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu Oct 18 13:49:30 EDT 2007


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Howard Butler wrote:
>>
>> The OpenLayers Incubation Status document is available at:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Incubation_Status
>>
> 
> I see on the incubation status page that OpenLayers has its own 
> infrastructure at MetaCarta. Should we not at a minimum have regular 
> (daily) backups of the SVN, Trac, Website and other important data on 
> OSGeo servers so that we don't end up being locked out if for whatever 
> reason Metacarta has to pull the plug on the servers overnight (be 
> paraniod for a sec).
> 
> I don't know if other graduated projects are in the same situation, but 
> if yes then I think it would be smart to have daily backups from those 
> projects not using OSGeo infrastructure as well.

Daniel,

I agree as I feel it avoids risk of an organizational decision to "lock up"
a project.

Best regards,
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