[Incubator] Vote to have retirement process become official

[Paul Spencer]

+0 Paul

On 2010-03-11, at 6:52 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Thanks Judit, I've incorporated your suggestion.
> 
> You can see the latest doc + changes here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Project_Retiring_Process&diff=46114&oldid=32985
> 
> Incubation Committee. I propose that the current Retirement Process become an official document.
> +1 Cameron Shorter
> 
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> 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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