[Incubator] Incubation Meeting Minutes

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks for posting; sorry I was unable to attend.

I know I posted this one earlier - but I found the breakdown of how projects are organised to be educational.
- http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php

In particular:
- the three communities idea
- the project lifecycle


The project lifecycle reflects on the meeting discussion with respect to OSGeo Labs and retiring of a project. And perhaps with Cameron's idea of an increased QA role.

In brief; the idea would be to:
- define different stages of a project lifecycle
- set requirements for each stage
- promote projects according to the stage they are in

So to cover the ideas on the table the following stages would be a starting point:
- Pre-lab (fill in an issue tracker requesting svn space for a budding osgeo project / idea - sanity check that a clear goal is defined)
- OSGeo Lab - experimental project focused on a clear goal
- Pre-proposal (the incubation committee can help projects fill in the issue tracker and gather information together to enter the incubation process. May be an OSGeo Lab offshoot or an existing project coming in from SourceForge etc..)
- Proposal - proposal is ready in the issue tracker ready for the next incubation meeting (or the finding of a mentor)
- Incubation - we have this stage already used to assist a project meet the incubation requirements with respect to open source / open development / providence review etc
- Project - accepted OSGeo prodject (we have this state already)
- Mature - projects that have met Stability, QA and Publicity targets and are ready for the marketing committee to promote; education committee to produce training materials around, translation to additional languages. These targets should be set by the committee's involved and are expected to change in response to market conditions and opportunities.
- Archived - projects that have become inactive (dwindling resources / reaching natural conclusion etc...)

Jody

On 04/03/2010, at 8:34 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I have written up the incubation commitee meeting minutes at:
> 
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IncCom_Meeting14
> 
> The full discussion is also linked from there.
> 
> Cameron's suggestions for revisions to the graduation checklist were
> met with significant resistance because it was felt that some of the more
> stringent requirements are too difficult to expect of all projects and/or
> they are too specific and don't reflect the diversity of approaches in
> different projects.
> 
> While I was one of those who was resistant, I think his objective of trying
> to raise quality bar is reasonable and I wonder how we can do it without
> being too rigid.  On the other hand Daniel made the point that perhaps it
> is not practical for OSGeo to police quality and all that we can practically
> do is to ensure that a community process is setup properly and hope that
> quality will improve out of that.
> 
> There also remains a good deal of uncertainty about how to judge suitability
> of smaller and less mature projects with regard to whether they are suitable
> for incubation.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
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