[Incubator] Fwd: Should "MetaCRS" be dropped from OSGeo Incubation (and maybe also from OSGeo-Live)?
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Wed Mar 23 06:37:10 PDT 2016
Hi everyone,
As the (inactive) mentor for MetaCRS, I agree with moving it to Labs.
Its sub-projects, especially PROJ4, are very actively used by several
OSGeo projects, but due to the nature of the projects and their small
teams they are unlikely to make progress through incubation anytime soon.
Daniel
On 2016-03-22 6:58 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Landon Blake* <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
> <mailto:sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com>>
> Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Incubator] Should "MetaCRS" be dropped from OSGeo
> Incubation (and maybe also from OSGeo-Live)?
> To: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
>
>
> Support for MetaCRS seems lukewarm. I'd like to step up as caretaker and
> get more involved. Can we move this from Incubaton to whatever we are
> going to call the new Incubation Labs? I can be listed as the project
> contact.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Landon
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Landon,
> Sounds like a good plan.
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 9/03/2016 3:30 am, Landon Blake wrote:
>> Let me reach out to the MetaCRS mailing list. If we can't find
>> interest there, I might be interested as stepping up as a
>> caretaker for the code as an "OSGeo Technology Project".
>>
>> Landon
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Cameron Shorter
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jody,
>> Great to hear there is some activity happening with the CRS
>> libraries.
>> But the question is not as to whether the projects are active,
>> but rather whether there are people within the projects
>> wishing to push these projects through the OSGeo Incubation
>> process.
>>
>> Rob, Martin, any thoughts from you?
>>
>> I'd suggest we give people a week or 2 to respond, probably
>> try and reach out directly as well, and if there are no
>> takers, then we should gracefully have these projects step
>> back from the OSGeo Incubation process, in order to better
>> reflect the current OSGeo status of these projects.
>>
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>
>>
>> On 27/02/2016 9:10 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>> Apaprently there is activity happening around the edges, I
>>> was talking with Rob and Martin about one of the metac crs
>>> projects.
>>>
>>> MetaCRS is kind of a "top-level" project facilitating
>>> communication between a number of different groups. As such
>>> it may be able to recast itself as a "committee" (that has a
>>> shared github some of their initiatives).
>>>
>>> I think MetaCRS would be a great candidate for an "OSGeo
>>> Technology" stream - the stated goal of MetaCRS is to:
>>>
>>> /"treat a variety of coordinate system activities as one
>>> Project from an OSGeo point of view. This helps provide
>>> enough "project mass" to justify the full OSGeo project
>>> treatment./
>>>
>>>
>>> If we set up "OSGeo Technology" right these individual
>>> projects will meet their goal of being recognized as the
>>> fundamental components that they are (and be supported).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 26 February 2016 at 11:55, Cameron Shorter
>>> <<mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>cameron.shorter at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi MetaCRS and OSGeo Incubation people,
>>> Has there been any activity on the MetaCRS project [1]
>>> over the last few years? The last active ticket I see is
>>> from 2013.
>>>
>>> It is listed as one of the projects in OSGeo-Incubation,
>>> and I think has been in incubation from close to the
>>> start of OSGeo founding?
>>>
>>> Is anyone working on it? And in particular, does anyone
>>> doing any work on taking Meta-CRS through incubation?
>>>
>>> I'm wondering whether it should be retired from the
>>> incubation process, or maybe the scope of projects it is
>>> trying to incubate be reduced?
>>>
>>> I ask in part because we include a description of MetaCRS
>>> in OSGeo-Live, but have no point of contact to maintain
>>> documentation since Mike Adair has stepped back from
>>> OSGeo activities.
>>>
>>> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/metacrs/
>>>
>>> --
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>> Cameron Shorter,
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