[Incubator] idea: combine project status and incubation checklist

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Am 2012-11-29 03:13, schrieb Jody Garnett:
> There is a lot of overlap between these two templates: - Project
> Status Template 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/statustemplate.html>
> version 1.1 ( wiki Project Status Template 
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Status_Template> draft) -
> Project Graduation Checklist 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html>
>
>  And there are a few areas which are out of date: - Project Status
> Template 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/statustemplate.html> <--
> use of OSGeo branding for project website <-- we never got official
> website branding out of the marketing committee (well we got
> something but it has not been applied to the osgeo home page yet)

My interpretation is that we want the projects to include the OSGeo
logo on their project site and link back to OSGeo. This is a minimal
requirement that everybody is usually happy to comply with but which
often enough simply is forgotten. Therefore we need it in the checklit
/ template. My most recent example is Marble (OSGeo in the footer).
http://marble.kde.org/

> - Project Evaluation Criteria 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html> <-- "9.
> Project is willing to migrate some or all of its infrastructure
> (code repository, web site, wiki, mailing list, etc) to foundation
> support infrastructure, and to adopt a website style consistent
> with the foundation."

This might be modified to read something like: "Provide
binaries/source code tarball for download on OSGeo infrastructure" and
then adding: "or recognized independent Open Source provider, for
example Apache, Eclipse, SourceForge, etc.". This makes up part of the
trust that OSGeo can offer to new users dipping their toe in Open
Source and still feeling weird because of all the FUD they had to eat.
It is not that we should enforce migrating anything to OSGeo. I guess
a project locked into Apache or SourceForge is well protected form
vanishing without a trace but there might still be the odd project
that runs their own servers and could disappear. Again - this is just
a reminder that the incubation committee look into this before
recommending graduation.

> Reminder - here is the incubation process:
> 
> 1. General Principles of Incubation 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/principles.html> 2.
> Incubation Process
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/process.html> 3. Incubator
> Application Questionnaire 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html> 4.
> Project Evaluation Criteria 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html> 5.
> Incubation Mentor Guidelines 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/mentor.html> 6. Code
> Provenance Review Process 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/codereview.html> 7. Project
> Status Template 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/statustemplate.html> 8.
> Project Graduation Checklist 
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html>
>
> 
9. Project Retiring Process
> <http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_retiring_process.html>
>
>  Since both Project Status Template and Project Graduation
> Checklist occur after the hands on review I think we can either: a)
> combine the two documents into the single checklist; or b) issue a
> new Project Status Template (removing the sections which are now
> covered by the checklist)
> 
> My preference is (a) and I am willing to write up a proposal,
> unless someone can remind me why we have two separate documents
> here?

No other reason than organic diversity (some prefer to call it chaos).

+1 from my side to go ahead as you propose.

Cheers,
Arnulf

> -- Jody Garnett
> 
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