[Incubator] Incubation Meeting Minutes - Retirement process

[Frank Warmerdam]

Judit Mays wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> reading through the proposed retirement process there is one point I
> find difficult.
> 
> "# Either the Project's Steering Committee, or OSGeo board decide that
> the project is no longer viable, or has moved away from OSGeo project
> principles."
> 
> I think, this is mixing two different events/cases.
> * First event: a project is no longer been worked on. Then, the PSC or
> the OSGeo Board (if the PSC is not willing or able to act any more)
> should announce the project is not being continued.
> * Second event: a project is moving away from OSGeo project principles.
> In this case, OSGeo might want to act in some certain way. But as the
> project might not intend to abandon further work, I would not want that
> project to undergo the "retirement process" but rather a "quit OSGeo
> process" (to be defined by the board).
> 
> Therefore I suggest to rephrase the above sentence to something like:
> "# Either the Project's Steering Committee, or OSGeo board (in absence
> of the former PSC) decide that the project is no longer viable."
> 
> After all, this is about "guidelines for *gracefully* retiring OSGeo
> projects".
> 
> Leave the potential project straying away from OSGeo principles for a
> separate discussion.

Judit,

I agree with this distinction.

Best regards,
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