[Incubator] Motion: Proposing Marble for OSGeo Graduation

[Arnulf Christl]

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Folks,
we have seven positive votes from Cameron, Jody, Landon, Julien, Paul,
Steven and Arnulf and declare this motion passed (can I do that, do we
have quorum, do we have any rules in place?).

Have fun,
Arnulf



On 09/12/2013 12:17 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> Folks, imho Marble is ready for graduation. They have done their
> chore, went through our lists (find the links below) updated their
> website to reflect their current status as incubating project. I
> have personally checked some 60% of the source code (because none
> of the developers found the time to do it). When talking to Torsten
> about this it became apparent that they did not really see the need
> because they are part of KDE community and strictly adhere to the
> KDE rules since inception of the project.
> 
> I still found half a dozen issues, minor things, mainly missing 
> license headers. One library had a permissive self made license,
> but we found it to be compatible. All other issues were addressed
> within max 10 days after me reporting them. Response was very good.
> A code checker gives regular status reports and all issues are
> available through well established KDE mechanisms.
> 
> In general I am very impressed with the project and the way it is 
> managed. The PSC is called the "maintainer group" and has a
> somewhat less formal structure than we have established for more
> commercial projects. One reason may be that there is no pressure
> from any commercial entity which might be pushing their agenda. It
> is a truly volunteer community project.
> 
> Being part of KDE seems to have a good effect on the overall 
> organization and set-up, everything is pretty transparent. The
> outward facing documentation is excellent (some of our own
> graduated projects could learn from this project).
> 
> Marble comes with a lot of data all of which is excellently
> referenced and licensed. http://edu.kde.org/marble/data.php
> 
> I believe that Marble will be a great addition to OSGeo and helps
> to round off the educational efforts of the Foundation by also
> reaching out to younger students and schools.
> 
> Please read the status and code provenance pages and ask questions
> or confirm that you fill confident to go ahead with graduation: 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marble_Graduation_Checklist 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marble_Incubation_Status 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marble_Code_Provenance_Review
> 
> 
> 
> We had hopes to be able to announce graduation at FOSS4G - but 
> unfortunately I have probably sent this mail a little too late
> now. Lets see how things go.
> 
> 
> Cheers, Arnulf
> 
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Arnulf Christl
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