[Incubator] Ready to start w. deegree?

[Jody Garnett]

Dr. Markus Lupp wrote:
>> I am willing; I am waiting for FrankW to tell me that the motion for 
>> GeoNetwork to graduate has been approved.
> Fine. Then I will wait as well. ;-)
>>> Anything else I can do to get the process started?
>> How is your providence review going :-) And do you have any questions 
>> about what the incubation process is about?
> [Thanks Christopher, for translating... ] Is the provenance review our 
> first task? If yes, I will start with it right away.
The provenance review is probably the most annoying task (it took me 
several months for GeoTools). I would recommend starting with a 
answering a series of 20 questions in the form of a wiki page 
(http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/statustemplate.html)

There are several examples here 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubation_Committee for examples
> Regarding the incubation process: I think I understand the general 
> principle. We have to meet a number of criteria and our Mentor tells 
> us what kind of information we have to deliver to allow evaluation of 
> those criteria. If we do not yet meet some criteria, we have to adjust 
> accordingly. You, Jody, will report all of this periodically to 
> IncCom. After we fulfil all criteria, the Incubation Mentor and IncCom 
> (hopefully) agree, that the project is ripe for full graduation.
That sounds about right; the other way of looking at it is the 
incubation process is designed to help make sure your project lines up 
with the goals of the OSGeo Foundation. We like to make sure that the 
project is open source (ie source can be downloaded) and also that the 
project is open to new developers (even if that means formally defining 
a few procedures for "project membership").

One thing that has been difficult for me as a mentor is communicating 
the separation between these goals and the rather blunt list of of the 
Project_Status_Template. If your project meets these goals using an 
existing procedure there is no reason to change it.  As an example it is 
not important to me that there there be a "steering committee" - it is 
important that new developers can take part, perhaps you make decisions 
by consulting everyone with commit status?

So I will wait for the go-ahead from FrankW, and will sign up to your 
devel list and introduce myself when I am officially tagged mentor.
Jody