[Incubator] Suggested tweaks to incubator docs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Cameron,

I made a couple of minor tweaks and added the following question to the draft Incubator Application Questionnaire:

“Please describe any factors that would stop '''any''' suitable member of your community from taking a committer, management or decision making role within your project community.”

Bruce






From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com<mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
Date: Sunday, 5 January 2014 10:33 pm
To: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com<mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>
Cc: Incubator <Incubator at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:Incubator at lists.osgeo.org>>
Subject: Re: [Incubator] Suggested tweaks to incubator docs

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<mailto: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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