[Incubator] quick update / feedback prior to osgeo meeting

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Landon, Manual,
In answer to Landon's question, I think that committer guidelines and 
responsibilities are important and should be addressed before completing 
incubation. It is future protection for you and your users to say we are 
doing our best to ensure that everyone understands that code for this 
project is Open Source, and also provides a good template for building 
community.

I haven't looked into the question about an unclear licenced component yet.

Cheers, Cameron

On 16/02/2016 12:07 pm, Landon Blake 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 <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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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