[Incubator] Motion: Proposing Marble for OSGeo Graduation

[Frank Warmerdam]

Arnulf,

I see i'm a bit late since the motion is already declared passed, but home
and recovered from FOSS4G I have reviewed the project and I also support
it's graduation from incubation.

+1

Best regards,
Frank



On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net
> wrote:

> Hi Arnulf,
> I've looked into it anyway and want to vote a +1 also. It looks like a
> well established project indeed.
> Cheers,
> Jeroen
>
> On 22 sep. 2013, at 13:05, Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>
> wrote:
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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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> >
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