[Incubator] Incubation Meeting Minutes - Retirement process

[Cameron Shorter]

I've updated the retirement process, including comments from the meeting.
I think that the process should be ready for voting on. Could people 
please read, and note any issues you may have.

If there are no issues, I'll ask Frank to propose a vote to accept in a 
week or so.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Project_Retiring_Process&diff=45941&oldid=32985



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,


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