[Incubator] Incubation Meeting

[Frank Warmerdam]

Paul Spencer wrote:
> Hi Judit,
> 
> this is for GeoMajas *entering* incubation.
> 
> The link from the incubator wiki page to pending applications is:
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=Incubator&keywords=%7Eapplication&order=priority
> 
> which seems to be slightly different from your query but probably the same
> actual applications.
> 
> I believe that applications are considered on a first-come-first-serve basis
> with a couple of caveats, the primary one being that a project needs to find
> a mentor.  As this is on a volunteer basis, and mentors should be at least
> moderately interested in but not related to the project, the older
> applications will not necessarily find a mentor before newer projects.
> 
> In this case, I've taken an interest in GeoMajas partly because Pieter was
> on the list looking for a mentor when I was thinking that I had some time to
> be a mentor again and partly because the project is in my realm of interest
> (web apps) without intersecting directly with my area of expertise (I don't
> do a lot of java).
> 
> Also, not every project that applies for incubation is actually ready to
> actually enter incubation based on our somewhat vague criteria. While not
> every aspect of a project has to be 'graduation-ready' before entrance into
> incubation, a project does have to demonstrate some basic components that
> indicate it *will* be able to graduate some day.  In my mind, project
> maturity is a key element to this.  Well established projects with a diverse
> developer and user base are more suitable candidates than new, experimental
> projects that have yet to establish themselves with a community.

Judit,

I agree with everything Paul says.

So our limiting factor for entering incubation currently is availability
of mentor volunteers.  We can/should consider (ie. vote on) any application
for which we have a volunteer.

At this point we are basically applying the criteria Paul mentions and a
few others listed at the following link to GeoMajas.

   http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html

Best regards,
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