[Incubator] gvSIG project graduation - motion

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Alvaro, we recently reduced the numbers of the incubation committee
in order to cut down on stalled votes. Let me start a second thread with
the current status.

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Jody Garnett

On 16 November 2015 at 05:43, Alvaro Anguix <aanguix at gvsig.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After starting the voting process there have been 8 votes, all of them in
> positive, but there are still 10 people pending for voting.
>
> During these days I haven't wanted to comment anything in order to not
> stop the voting process, but from more than a week ago there hasn't been
> any additional vote, so that I wanted to ask you if there's an established
> period for finishing voting. I've been reviewing it but I haven't found any
> information about that.
>
> I want to thank for your understanding, because in case the project gets
> the graduation we would like to present it during the next International
> gvSIG Conference (December 2tnd-4th).
>
> Best regards,
> Alvaro
>
> El 27/10/15 a las 19:26, Jeff McKenna escribió:
>
> I also believe that gvSIG is ready to graduate (from reviewing the
> checklist at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Checklist). Can
> you please update the motion to include the name of the Project Officer
> from gvSIG (who reports to the OSGeo board)?  Thanks.
>
> +1
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-27 1:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Hi incubation committee,
> With the latest updates to gvSIG's docs about decision making [1]
> updated, I believe gvSIG is ready for graduation, as requested by
> Dimitris (OSGeo graduation mentor) below.
>
> I propose that gvSIG is officially passes the OSGeo Graduation process
> and is accepted as an OSGeo project into graduation.
> +1 Cameron
>
> [1]
>
> http://docs.gvsig.org/plone/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/about-technical-decisions/
>
>
> On 27/10/2015 2:50 am, Dimitris Kotzinos wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I think that this is a good time for me as the mentor of the gvSIG
> project to recap the discussion in an effort to move things forward.
> Before that I would like to thank all the members of the committee for
> the highly constructive comments and the members of the gvSIG Community
> (especially Alvaro and Manuel that were the voices) for the very prompt
> and also constructive responses that show a great level of dedication in
> the graduation process.
> So I feel that the gvSIG community is demonstrating also through the
> graduation process its strength and commitment. I think that there were
> not really severe pending issues that would prohibit the project from
> graduating, while various comments - like the management process and the
> TSC functioning - demonstrated that on the one hand there is always room
> for improvement and on the other hand the community has already strong
> processes in place. We might not all agree 100% of all the processes but
> in my review of those (and I had long discussions with the gvSIG people
> before suggesting the project for graduation) I find that the processes
> are institutionalized and observed with a professional quality. The
> gvSIG community offers the unique experience for an OSGEO project to be
> managed by a legal entity. Moreover, the gvSIG community is healthy and
> spans 4 continents and carries information in different languages and in
> different places. I suspect that graduation gave them a good incentive
> to clarify and update their documented functions.
>
> So since we started the graduation process back in July (almost now 3
> months ago) I would like to ask teh Committee members to try to honor
> their request that we have some results shortly enough, in time for
> their next gvSIG Conference. Personally I do not see any blocking factor
> but if it is let's try to communicate it to them as fast as possible.
> So I would like to kindly ask Jody, as the chair, that if he feels that
> there are no blockong issues to move the vote forward.
>
> Again from my side I am available to facilitate the process as much,
> although as you saw so far I am letting the community deal with all
> requests posted here.
> So please as a Committee let's follow up on this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dimitris
>
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