[Incubator] quick update / feedback prior to osgeo meeting

Mon Feb 15 21:54:15 PST 2016

Never enough to stress: that is all driven by Tom himself, so big kudos and
thanks for help

Jachym

út 16. 2. 2016 v 2:42 odesílatel Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi all: short update from PyWPS:
>
> - we have ironed out much of the confusion between PyWPS 3 and 4
> into a single codebase with a clean organization between branches/master
> [1].
> This includes a license change (from GPL to MIT) between versions 3 and 4
> (note
> version 4 is a clean rewrite/not derived)
> - we have started documenting dev processes and infrastructure [2][3] in
> order to improve consistency within the project
> - we have beefed up project marketing (finally acquiring the pywps.org
> domain,
> updates on Nabble, OpenHub, OSGeo Planet, etc.) [4]
> - we have stood up a demo server on http://demo.pywps.org [5] which will
> serve
> instances in support of OGC compliance and reference implementations
>
> Next steps:
> - include PyWPS in OSGeo Live
> - continue Incubation checklist
> - perform provenance review against master
>
> ..Tom
>
> [1] https://github.com/geopython/PyWPS
> [2] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/TechnicalInfrastructure
> [3] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/wiki/Templates
> [4]
> https://github.com/geopython/pywps/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22OSGeo+Incubation%22
> [5] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/issues/73
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just looked over the information provided by Manuel. It looks like the
> > code provenance review and review of libraries is complete. The only
> minor
> > issues are:
> >
> > - The S6 library by NASA (and others) is used by one module. This
> library is
> > publicly available, but wasn't officially released under an open source
> > license.
> > - The project may switch from the GPL to Apache software license at some
> > point in the near future.
> > - We don't have Committer Responsibilities Guidelines in place just yet.
> >
> > I don't think either of the first 2 items should postpone incubation, but
> > I'm not an expert.
> >
> > What do you other committee members think? Does anyone see another lose
> end
> > that I'm missing?
> >
> > Let me know what I need to tie up so we can get OTB over the finish
> line. :]
> >
> > Manuel: What is our timeline for the creation of Committer
> Responsibilities
> > Guidelines?
> >
> > Landon
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Manuel Grizonnet <
> manuel.grizonnet at cnes.fr>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> as a member of the orfeo team, I just want to do an update regarding the
> >> OTB incubation process (I've just checked and updated the application
> this
> >> morning):
> >>
> >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OTB_Incubation_Application
> >>
> >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OTB_Code_Provenance_Review
> >>
> >> I've especially complete information regarding Foundation membership
> >> (complete IMO) and the code copyright review.
> >>
> >> Long story short, no blocking (or unknown) issues regarding license of
> >> third party and copyrights. Since the end of 2015, OTB is in the
> process to
> >> be uploaded to Debian for the first time and has entered the "NEW
> queue".
> >> I've added more information in the application about included libraries
> and
> >> copyright management.
> >>
> >> Note that there are also initiatives of the community to investigate the
> >> feasibility to move OTB from GPL to an Apache license (see
> >> https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/blog/page/6/?cat=1). If it happens it
> will be
> >> discus and done following the decision making process set up in 2015
> >> (inspired by other osgeo projects like gdal, qgis...) but I am not sure
> that
> >> it should be "correlate" with the osgeo incubation process.
> >>
> >> Hope that we will be able to make some progress this year regarding
> this.
> >>
> >> Thanks again to Landon for his mentoring and pushing forward otb
> >> application.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Manuel
> >>
> >> Le 03/02/2016 17:44, Landon Blake a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> I'm going to see if I can push the OTB boys over the finish line this
> >>> year. I've got some licensing issues I need to e-mail the committee
> >>> about. I'll try to do that this week.
> >>>
> >>> I've also got a project for an SLD editor that reached out to me about
> >>> OSGeo Labs. I'll try to review what I was sent and forward it to the
> >>> committee this week as well. Then we will have to have a conversation
> >>> about what we actually want Incubation Labs to be. :]
> >>>
> >>> Landon
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     We are running pretty low volume on the incubation list here, I am
> >>>     heading into the OSGeo board meeting and would like to highlight
> any
> >>>     feedback from our projects in incubation.
> >>>
> >>>     We have actually had a fairly successful year here, but I would
> >>>     still like to consider kicking it up a notch in terms of graduating
> >>>     projects and recruiting new projects into the foundation.
> >>>     --
> >>>     Jody Garnett
> >>>
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> >> --
> >> Manuel GRIZONNET
> >>
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