[Incubator] Suggested tweaks to incubator docs

[Jody Garnett]

Activity died down over the summer holidays Cameron. Are you still
interested in updating the evaluation criteria?

Application Questionnaire feedback:
- Question 3 - I think we can leave off requesting email addresses for all
committers in what is a public document.
- Question 11 is leading. These would be better handled as individual
questions.
- Question 13 is offering too many suggestions. Just asking "What standards
does your project make use of".
- We may also just be honest and have a question about "Do you have a OSGeo
mentor" since that is the first email we end up sending out to any
applicant.

I think we could cut the number of questions by linking to a good example
that illustrates the kind of information we are requesting.

Evaluation Criteria:

Do not understand why "Project is prepared to develop in an open and
collaborative fashion." was cut, is this not the sticking point we have run
into a couple times now?

I feel that we could combine the questionnaire and the evaluation criteria.
By using italics in the template.

10. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?
*(We wish to confirm the code is available under an OSI approved license,
we will look at the license for code, data and documentation during the
course of incubation).*


Jody Garnett


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Ok,
> I've drafted proposed updates to Incubation docs, to align with the
> Project Graduation Checklist, primarily to remove implied preference for
> using OSGeo infrastructure.
>
> Application Questionnaire:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Incubator_Application_Questionnaire
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Incubator_Application_Questionnaire&action=historysubmit&diff=75900&oldid=75899
>
> Evaluation Criteria:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Evaluation_Criteria
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Project_Evaluation_Criteria&action=historysubmit&diff=75898&oldid=75896
>
> I suggest that if there are no objections within a week or 2, we should
> vote to approve these updated versions of the docs.
>
>
> On 03/01/14 16:46, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> A good observation, can you think of a way to smoothly update these docs
> without getting bogged down in the details?
>
>  Two ideas:
>
>  a) General: Remote references to OSGeo infrastructure, and add a note at
> the end to the effect that: "OSGeo infrastructure is available for OSGeo
> Labs and OSGeo Incubation projects. Contact the system administration
> committee for details"
> b) Wiki Draft: make a copy on the wiki and edit in collaboration with the
> mailing list here.
>
>
>
>  Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Landon and others on the incubator list,
>>
>> Something touched on in the last board meeting was that our incubation
>> questionaires encourage incoming projects to make use of OSGeo
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> This was considered desirable when OSGeo was formed, but the software
>> development landscape has changed, and well maintained infrastructure such
>> as sourceforge and github is now available for free, and arguably provides
>> better value and better service than volunteers at OSGeo can provide.
>>
>> The Project Graduation Checklist is now consistant with this revised
>> focus, however it would be valuable if the other documents, such as
>> Incubation Questionaire and Project Graduation Guidelines were updated too.
>>
>> Eg revise from Project Graduation Guidelines: " 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."
>>
>> Reference:
>> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
>>
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>
>
>
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