[Incubator] Fwd: Should "MetaCRS" be dropped from OSGeo Incubation (and maybe also from OSGeo-Live)?
Jody Garnett
jody.garnett at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 16:28:43 PDT 2016
Thanks for the initiative, I recently set up a page
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoWebCache> for GeoWebCache you can use as an
example.
--
Jody Garnett
On 23 March 2016 at 06:37, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
wrote:
> 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/
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cameron Shorter,
>>>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>>> LISAsoft
>>>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
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>>> --
>>> Cameron Shorter,
>>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>> LISAsoft
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>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
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