[Incubator] A couple good questions out of GeoMOOSE

[Daniel Morissette]

On 11-11-28 05:44 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> And the section "Infrastructure Transition" as promptly tricked them
> into filing tickets (rather than documenting where their source code,
> issue tracker and so on are). Do you think we could modify this section
> to say Infrastructure. We can include the text that this section is used
> to collect information for "OSGeo hosting" if the project is interested.
>

I do not feel strongly about renaming the section or not, but it seems 
to make sense that if a project is already happily hosting its 
infrastructure elsewhere then they should be allowed to do so as long as 
the system that is used is open and not controlled by a single 
organization that could decide to lock out all project members if they 
were bought by an evil entity for instance.

For this reason, my personal opinion is that if a project is hosted 
outside of OSGeo servers, then measures should be taken to ensure that 
in case of problems OSGeo and its community always has access to a 
recent copy of all source code archives, bug tracker db, forum/list 
archives, website, etc, including history where applicable,

A way to handle this could possibly be to setup a daily rsync/backup 
from the hosted services to an OSGeo backup server. Would this be asking 
too much of projects?


> Other than that there was the very sensible question:
>
> Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
>      Not that I know of. Jody would you like to add this to the next
> Board agenda or should I?
>
> I suspect that this is one of my responsibilities as project mentor?
>
> In the past I simply asked on this email list, and the incubation chair
> quickly handled such things. I was not sure if that was simply because
> they were on the OSGeo board (or if they were acting as incubation
> chair). Please advise :-P
>


I'd say it would be the responsibility of the IncCom chair to take those 
decisions to the board for approval after the committee has made the 
decision. If I'm not mistaken the chair of a committee is also the 
liaison to the board for that committee (someone please correct me if 
I'm wrong)

You raise an interesting point that in the past, by coincidence, IncCom 
chairs have always also been board members... does this mean that you 
are going to have to join the board next year? ;-)

More seriously, if that would make your job easier then I'm happy to 
take care of bringing up those decisions to the board for approval. Just 
let me know.

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Daniel Morissette
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