[Incubator] GeoNetwork incubator status; is the PSC working?

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Jeroen; glad to see you moving forward. I just saw people voting on 
the PSC part as recently as the 11th.
- http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/PSC

We should make sure your PSC is set up established and working before 
graduating. Your email mentioned that this was decided back in April - 
has the PSC managed to handle a proposal yet? Perhaps we should wait 
until after your November 5th meeting.

Cheers,
Jody

> Hi all,
> I wanted to give you an update on where we are with the GeoNetwork 
> opensource incubation process. I think we are about ready to request 
> passing incubation. We have done all the required work from what I can 
> see.
>
> All details can be found on the GeoNetwork incubator page and related 
> pages.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GeoNetwork_Incubation_Status
>
> The only thing I'm waiting for is our advisory board members to give 
> their OK on the PSC guidelines. Not all responded to my request. They 
> take too long from my perspective ;-)
>
> Some more background on that:
> Last year we decided to have an advisory board more than a project 
> steering committee and have me coordinate the day to day project. The 
> idea was that the project runs fine and we do not want to complicate 
> that process with many rules & regulations. So we identified a number 
> of people to take seat on the advisory board and make sure we all meet 
> during the GeoNetwork workshop. During that workshop we have both 
> technical workshops and working groups that discuss the requirements 
> and related work plan for the project. This is a community process. 
> All members of the GN community are invited and asked (also on the 
> mailing list) to give their priorities. We reach consensus on the work 
> plan and look for who does what.
>
> Since all code review has been done, the committers have agreed to the 
> Committer Guidelines and I want to finish incubation before our next 
> GeoNetwork workshop (as agreed by the GeoNetwork workshop last year) I 
> hereby want to ask the incubation committee to consider graduating the 
> project.
>
> During the Workshop I will propose to also install a project committee 
> that deals with the actual technical implementation. That means we 
> will work towards a two level structure in which we have an advisory 
> board and a technical committee. The last one will have developers and 
> users in its membership while the first one has a more general 
> advisory role.
>
> OK, looking forward to hear from the incubation committee.
> Ciao,
> Jeroen
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