[Incubator] gvSIG project graduation

[Jody Garnett]

General call out to the committee to help review on this one :)

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Jody Garnett

On 28 July 2015 at 04:27, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am happy today to report to the list that the gvSIG project has
> fulfilled in my view all the criteria put forward by the OSGeo
> Incubation Committee and as the project mentor I support the project's
> request for graduation.
> gvSIG is one of the healthiest and very active projects around, with a
> solid developer and user base. It has been around for a long time and
> has done excellent things, the latest being an award at the NASA World
> Wind contest received in FOSS4G-Europe in Como, Italy this month.
>
> I had the chance to meet with the gvSIG people at FOSS4G-E in Como and
> we finalized the checklist for the project graduation. You can find the
> checklist here:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Checklist
>
> The people around gvSIG have responded greatly to all the requests I
> made as a mentor, they have gone even beyond that in many occasions,
> e.g. by providing live statistics on their developers' activity.
> They have gone through a code provenance review, they have user and
> developer lists in many languages and they have in place governance
> practices that abide with what I would consider proper governance of
> open source projects.
>
> I would like to ask the list to take the time and have a look to the
> checklist mentioned above and if anything is found out of the order
> please let me and Manuel Madrid <mmadrid at gvsig.com> know.
> I would also like to ask Jody to initiate the proper time period for
> comments and declare the time for voting when the time comes.
>
> Finally I would like to thank Manuel and Alvaro from the gvSIG
> Association for their excellent collaboration and to publicly apologize
> to them that sometimes the work load prohibited me to be as available
> and responsive as I would like.
>
> Thank you for your attention,
> Best regards,
>
> Dimitris
>
> P.S.1: Although the project has made a great effort to provide English
> documentation for ... everything, some things might be found in Spanish
> (their language of origin), as well as some of the most active lists are
> the Spanish ones. I respected that and I let the project take its time
> and decide by itself on what to translate and what not.
> But I would like to say kudos on their efforts to provide everything in
> at least both Spanish and English.
>
> P.S.2: Since during the process we had to switch from the checklist
> v.1.0 to v.2.0 of graduation requirements I was wondering what is the
> proper way to introduce comments and requests for changes for this.
>
>
> --
> Dimitris Kotzinos
> Professor
> Head MIDI team
> Lab. ETIS (ENSEA/UCP/CNRS UMR 8051)
> & Dept. Sciences Informatiques, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
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> France
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> e-mail: Dimitrios.Kotzinos at u-cergy.fr
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