[Incubator] Vote: GeoMoose Graduation

[Cameron Shorter]

Some questions and comments on GeoMoose after reading through the 
Incubation Checklist here: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Incubation_Checklist

(I think the project is getting close, but not quite ready to complete 
graduation)

1. I notice that there are 7 committers to the project, from 5 
organisations. I consider this to be a low, but acceptable number for a 
maturing project if the organisations are independent of each other.
However, I'd like to know who sponsors all these developers and 
organisations? Is all the work ultimately being sponsored by the one agency?

2. It seems there are still some of loose ends which are still to be 
addressed, and I think that projects should not ask for graduation 
approval until they have been addressed. In particular, Jody mentioned:
* No clear statement yet on the licence of documentation? Reference to 
an email discussion about license, doesn't constitute completion. I'm 
looking for a license statement on website or developer guidelines or 
similar.
* While not a show stopper, I'd expect that code contributors should be 
able to contribute code under the project's MIT license, rather than 
being required to contribute under public domain.
* I see there are 2 outstanding tickets 179, 180 addressing license 
issues. I'd like to see these addressed before we consider the project 
ready to complete graduation.

Documentation:
http://www.geomoose.org/developer/index.html
* I notice that core documentation is being stored in a RFC, eg: 
"Project Steering Committee Guidelines".
* I'd expect that once the RFC has been approved, that the documentation 
is moved into the main documentation structure from which it can 
continue to be maintained. (I see RFCs as decisions that have been made, 
and then fixed in time, rather than current working documentation).

* Link to "How to Release" points nowhere.

* Project Officer: No one named yet. I'd expect a volunteer to be 
identified.



On 18/03/2013 3:55 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I'd like to make a motion to recommend GeoMoose for graduation from 
> the incubation process.
>
>

On 13/03/2013 4:45 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Here is the checklist now:
> - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Incubation_Checklist
>
> Discussion is open if you have any questions, everything looks in 
> order from my point of view.
>
> A couple of notes from my time as mentor:
> - the project decisions have gotten way easier to track, with a 
> separate email list and RFC process.
> - the documentation license question was interesting (as we had the 
> same discussion for GeoServer) - the result in this case is the 
> documentation being covered under the same MIT license as the codebase
> - code contribution agreement is handled via contributors donating 
> work into the public domain (there are two outstanding trace issues to 
> patch the developers guide)
> - provenance review did not turn up anything special, sample data was 
> credited or replaced with toy data
> - project officer is TBD (and can be nominated when we send the 
> project up to the board for approval)
>


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-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
http://www.lisasoft.com