[Incubator] gvSIG project graduation - motion

[Jeff McKenna]

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
>>