[Incubator] MOTION: GeoNode Graduation from OSGeo Incubation

Jeffrey Johnson ortelius at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 08:50:49 PDT 2016


Im planning to work on this stuff this week. Thanks for the feedback!

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Checking back today, is the
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoNode_Provenance_Review#Source_Files going to
> be filled in?  While I have been cheerfully going over the codebase, it is
> not really my assurance we are looking for out of the incubation process,
> instead this is an opportunity for the project team to double check where
> their code (and sample data) came from?
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 27 August 2016 at 01:33, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Since the provenance review was empty I thought I would hit the code
>> base....
>>
>> The docs (http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/index.html)  end up with "©
>> Copyright 2015, GeoNode Development Team. Revision a5dc49f3" in the footer
>> (ie they do not indicate they are CCbyA). May be able to update footer in
>> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/blob/master/docs/conf.py
>>
>> Doing spot checks on source code - amusing history updating headers -
>> thanks Daniel Berry for his own personal edit war. I found a Copyright (C)
>> 2010 David Winslow (not sure if you care).
>>
>> The "django.po" files have some boiler plate - "# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.,
>> Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER, This file is distributed
>> under the same license as the PACKAGE package."
>> … "
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 26 August 2016 at 17:01, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Active and healthy community
>>>
>>> No real feedback here, a healthy and diverse group.
>>>
>>> Copyright and License
>>>
>>> A few spot checks on provenance review...
>>>
>>> Libraries:
>>> - IMDbPY 4.9? license ... GPLv2
>>> - click 5.1 ... BSD
>>> - matplotlib 1.3.1 ... matplotlib licens <-- is that open source?
>>> - ... a few more to do here?
>>>
>>> Source Files - this section is empty?
>>> - um I am missing something? Did you run into any trouble when checking
>>> files ...
>>> - note you do not have to fix things, we only want a list of any trouble
>>> so interested parties can volunteer
>>>
>>> Think I will stop here, happy to help at pub this evening or code sprint
>>> tomorrow :)
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 26 August 2016 at 14:57, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just going through this now because it is so exciting ...
>>>>
>>>> Open
>>>>
>>>> For the contribution docs I am not quite sure they are up to date - I
>>>> was looking at how the CLA was handled during contributing.
>>>> -
>>>> http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/organizational/contribute/index.html#contrib
>>>> -
>>>> http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/organizational/contribute/review_process.html
>>>> - broken [[links]]
>>>> - https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING looks good
>>>> references www.clahub.com, does the link work when doing a pull request?
>>>> - Excellent docs though, and good to credit the github guides.
>>>>
>>>> David do you have links to a PSC decision or two so we can see how it is
>>>> done? I am curious as what kind of question would cause the community to
>>>> "resort to taking things to the PSC for vote"?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>> On 25 August 2016 at 17:28, David William Bitner <bitner at dbspatial.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Incubation Committee,
>>>>>
>>>>> As the mentor for GeoNode Incubation, I would like to make a motion to
>>>>> graduate GeoNode from the OSGeo incubation process with Jeff Johnson to act
>>>>> as the Project Officer.
>>>>>
>>>>> You will find the Incubation Checklist at:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoNode_Incubation_Checklist
>>>>>
>>>>> During the incubation process much work has been done to solidify the
>>>>> intellectual property behind GeoNode.
>>>>>
>>>>> copyright was transferred from the now dissolved OpenPlans
>>>>> a Contributor License Agreement has been adopted and a process created
>>>>> to collect from all contributors
>>>>> all files have been checked for headers
>>>>> the release process documentation has been shored up
>>>>>
>>>>> GeoNode has a tremendous "bus quotient" as there are core developers
>>>>> distributed globally. Many of the institutional direct users have developed
>>>>> strong expertise in GeoNode along with many companies that have developed
>>>>> support programs built around GeoNode. There is no single point of failure
>>>>> for this project.
>>>>>
>>>>> The GeoNode has managed to work in the open from inception in a way
>>>>> that has enabled enormous amounts of collaboration both between institutions
>>>>> using GeoNode and companies/individuals providing support for GeoNode.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ************************************
>>>>> David William Bitner
>>>>> dbSpatial LLC
>>>>> 612-424-9932
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
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