[Incubator] [OSGeo-Discuss] New incubation procedure

[Jody Garnett]

I will volunteer after foss4gna to look at this.

I am still interested in keeping our current procedure (as I think it is
producing good results) and relaxing the requirement for a mentor (which is
an embarrassing bottleneck).

Rather than a "star" system I think we can highlight how far along in the
checklist each project is.

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Jody Garnett

On 10 March 2015 at 16:12, Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We need to be careful when playing around with our 'Incubation Procedure'.
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> It causes considerable angst and disruption to both mentors and to the
> relevant communities going through incubation when we keep trying to change
> to rules.
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> From my opinion as a mentor, the current process while subjective in some
> cases is still valid and effective in guiding a project to the ideals that
> we as a community aspire to.
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> When a project graduates from incubation, it gains considerable
> credibility as a viable open source spatial project. It is a badge of
> honour for the project and something to aspire too. So why are we trying to
> dilute this?
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> While there are aspects that could improve, what is the rationale for
> wanting to change the process (together with the inevitable disruption that
> follows)?
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> If we are serious about changing the incubation rules, then a more formal
> methodology such as those referred to by Cameron at [1] may be more
> appropriate.
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> Now, who has the spare time to investigate and drive this forward, **if we
> deem it appropriate**.....?
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> Are there any volunteers?
>
> Bruce
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> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-March/002644.html
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> I recently came across a number of "Open Source Maturity Methodologies",
> which is worth being aware of, and possibly incorporating and/or
> referencing from OSGeo Incubation processes:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_assessment_methodologies
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