[Incubator] osgeo labs - Maturity Rating

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Jody,
This rating was originally intended for OSGeo-Live, and some of the 
OSGeo-Live community found it a bit controversial.
In particular, people don't like to have their project rated at a 2 out 
of 5 in maturity.
(It might help if we made the rating top heavy with positions in the 5, 
4.5, 4 range).

On 22/09/2014 5:06 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Maybe you could introduce this on OSGeo live? I think it could apply 
> to more than just OsGeo projects.
>
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> We discussed a 5 star maturity rating in 2010. I still like the idea, 
>> but it was contentious at the time, especially with projects which 
>> would rank low on the rating, and it was eventually dropped in favour 
>> of using just "Incubated"/"Incubating" as more politically acceptable.
>>
>> This is what we proposed:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Marketing_Artefacts&oldid=51118#Maturity_Rating
>>
>>
>>   Maturity Rating
>>
>> Description
>>     A 5 star rating system to qualify the how established a project
>>     is. Rating is to be broken down as follows:
>>
>>       * 5 stars: This rating is yet to be defined, and will not be
>>         allocated to projects yet. Project includes bundled software,
>>         regular builds, security updates, training, etc.
>>       * 4 stars (mature): Project has passed osgeo incubation as
>>         per:http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
>>       * 3.5 stars: Not to be used yet, but may later be introduced
>>         for projects which have entered incubation.
>>       * 3 stars (established): Project has Stable Software, a Stable
>>         community, is deployed in production systems, and is ready to
>>         pass criteria to enter incubation, as
>>         per:http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html
>>       * 2 stars (stable): Project has Stable Software.
>>           o Project produces periodic releases of stable software
>>             which is used in production systems.
>>       * 1 star (beta): Project has Beta software.
>>
>>
>> Discussion about it here:
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-June/thread.html
>>
>> On 19/09/2014 8:41 am, Luca Delucchi wrote:
>>> On 18 September 2014 23:10, Jachym Cepicky<jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Or
>>>>
>>>> level 1 - project (name, license, headers)
>>>> level 2 - code clean checked
>>>> level 3 - steering committee
>>>> level 4 - ...
>>>> level 5 - community, mature osgeo project
>>>>
>>>> drift between levels is possible both ways (you lost community e.g.)
>>>>
>>> I really like this idea...
>>>
>>>> jody could give more insight view
>>>>
>>>> Jachym
>>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
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>>
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Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
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26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

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