[Incubator] Rasdaman Incubation Status [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Jody,

The Rasdaman Community is starting to increase the pace of development with around 90 patches applied within the last two months.

The community is also coming together to support new user queries.

It is good to see these developments.

There has been little 'apparent' movement towards incubation over the last few months, despite prompting.

Two particular issues to note:


 *   Over the last few months there have been discussions on the mailing lists as to establishing an Incubation Checklist on the Rasdaman Wiki to list incubation tasks to be undertaken, their status and who is working on them.  This checklist would allow anyone to monitor progress towards incubation. The gist of the suggestion is to use the format developed by the GeoServer Community. To date, there has been little take up or action towards this checklist.


 *   With the many patches that have been applied to the Rasdaman source code, it was found that some developers had introduced functionality that the project lead found undesirable, with the changes reversed. I suggested that this should perhaps be the catalyst that allows the community to introduce a Project Steering Committee to guide community developers on desirable project future directions. This suggestion has yet to be taken up for discussion.


I have mixed feelings about the Rasdaman Community's commitment to graduation from OSGeo Incubation. While the commitment is clearly there from several key community members, they are clearly very busy and have little spare time.

Bruce
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