[Incubator] gvSIG incubation push

Wed Oct 1 10:08:08 PDT 2014

We all understand the release cycle :) And really hope you are close.
Reading your email I am not sure I understand the difference between core
source code that has been reviewed and the 3% remaining external code?

I have experience of three similar things - perhaps you could tell me which
one you mean?

1) pending code: GeoServer maintains a "community" folder in our source
code for experiments and new developers. We do not build this source code
into our binary and it has not had its license and headers reviewed. When a
module is "ready" a member of the GeoServer team will review and add it
into the main codebase - but really it is a play area for developer out
reach. The source code is available for download - but has not been checked
by the GeoServer team (and is not being compiled and distributed by the
GeoServer team).

So if your 3% is like this - no worries. Explain in your provenance review
that this 3% is a work in progress and will be checked before being
distributed.

2) External dependency: GeoTools uses the Apache Commons library - we
checked that the apache license worked with LGPL for incubation, but we did
not download the apache commons library source code and check each file.
The GeoTools team trusts the apache foundation to sort that out, if they
make a mistake we may need to do something about it but we will deal with
it when the time comes.

So if your 3% is like this you are doing too much work - only check what
your team manages. If you build it check it, if you get it from maven
central check the license works out (as you do not want to annoy another
team).

3) Copying a file from another project. GeoTools has several files that
have been copied from Apache - and needed to ensure they had the original
Apache License header on top of them. This is why when you look at our license
page <http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/license.html> you
can see a note about the library being LGPL ... along with a few other
files that have been provided to us.

Reading your provenance-review
<http://www.gvsig.org/plone/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/devel/gvsig-devel-guide/2-1-0/provenance-review>
-
I think this is what you mean. There was no need to seperate out into an
external project (as long as the license is compatible). Just leave the
origional headers as is. Depending on the license terms you may need to
make a note in your user docs - as was done in the GeoTools license page.

If you need to modify the files a bit after making a copy (say to patch an
issue) you can get an interesting header example - as shown in "Example
from Tutorial or Magazine Code" from GeoServer
<https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Expectations-and-Examples>.

    /*
     * Copyright (c) 2007 - 2013 OpenPlans - www.openplans.org. All rights
reserved.
     * Copyright 2003 Jayson Falkner (jayson at jspinsider.com)

     * This code is from "Servlets and JavaServer pages; the J2EE Web Tier",
     * http://www.jspbook.com. You may freely use the code both commercially
     * and non-commercially. If you like the code, please pick up a copy of
     * the book and help support the authors, development of more free code,
     * and the JSP/Servlet/J2EE community.
     *
     * Modified by David Winslow <dwinslow at openplans.org> on 2007-12-13.
     */

So if your 3% is like this don't worry, leave the original headers alone
and you are good to go.

Jody Garnett

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Manuel Madrid <mmadrid at gvsig.com> wrote:

> Hi Dimitris,
>
> Good to hear from you again and thank you very much for being willing to
> help us again. We are really almost done. Let me give you a general view of
> the status of the incubation process:
>
> We made a big effort some months ago in order to finish the main pending
> task: the code provenance review. At this moment it has been completely
> reviewed three core projects which together represent more than 97% of the
> core source code. Also, within the rest of the core projects (less that 3%
> of the total code) we reviewed the license compatibility with external
> libraries so there is only missing the review of external code and file
> headers of this small part of the code. We identified and fixed all the
> issues that we detected within the reviewed source code.
>
> Regarding the rest of requirements, in principle there are only two
> missing documents: the release guide and the release testing checklist. We
> could provide those documents in a short term but, to be honest,
> unfortunately we are not going to be able to review the provenance of the
> missing 3% of the code at this moment, as all our resources are completely
> focused in the final release of gvSIG 2.1. We really hope that this is not
> a critical issue.
>
> You will find all the information related with the gvSIG incubation
> process in the following links:
>
> - Incubation Status:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Status
> - Incubation Checklist:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Checklist
> - Provenance review:
> http://www.gvsig.org/plone/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/
> devel/gvsig-devel-guide/2-1-0/provenance-review
>
> We would very much appreciate if you can review this and let us know if
> providing the documents I mentioned would be enough to get ready for the
> graduation.
>
> Of course I will be available for talking about this off-list if you want.
>
> Best,
> Manuel.
>
>
> On 01/10/14 09:39, Dimitris Kotzinos wrote:
>
>> Hi Manuel and Jeff,
>>
>> I was thinking the exact same thing!
>> It would be great to announce the graduation for the conference.
>> Manuel, could we try to revive the process? We can talk off-list if you
>> like!
>>
>> Sorry for not pushing too hard and thanks to Jeff for putting this
>> forward.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dimitris
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