[Incubator] Suggest QGIS For Graduation

[Cameron Shorter]

Frank or Bob, can you please ensure this email is forwarded appropriate 
members of QGIS team.

Congratulations to the QGIS folks, this project looks to be very healthy 
and will be an excellent addition to the stable of OSGeo software.

I've only picked up on one issue.
I don't think the existing processes are strong enough to ensure that 
proprietary code is kept out of the codebase in future.

I'd like to see either:
1. All developers sign a Contributors Agreement noting they agree to 
developer guidelines, or
2. Email a public list with the same type of information as the CA.

The key element of the developer guidelines is "Thou shall only commit 
clean code to the codebase".

I'd like to see a documented process for adding new coders which 
includes asking the new coder to sign up to their responsibilities.

I believe all OSGeo projects have such processes. You can see an example 
from Mapbuilder's processes under the title of "Committer" and 
"Committer Responsiblities" at 
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Contributers+Guide


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Ideally Bob Bray as QGIS mentor ought to be doing this, but Gary and I 
> have
> been having trouble getting a response from him about QGIS incubation, 
> so...
>
> I think QGIS is pretty much ready for graduation.  The documents are at:
>
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/QGIS_Incubation_Status
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/QGIS_Provenance_Review
>
> As a QGIS developer now, I'm not exactly disinterested, but I think QGIS
> is an open community with a governance structure in place.  The code
> provenance review found no problems, and in a variety of spot checks 
> myself
> I don't see any issues.
>
> So, consider this a "call for questions and concerns" which will 
> hopefully
> lead to a motion to graduate within a week or two from either myself 
> or Bob.
>
> Best regards,


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