[Incubator] PyWPS update

[Jody Garnett]

G'Day Tom, great to hear from the project!

I am not really sure what to make of the PyWPS 3 vs PyWPS 4 question - I do
not think anything like that has been asked before. I had always assumed
that a development team was going ahead and reviewing their current code
base?

Are both codebases still active? Is PyWPS 4 based on PyWPS 3 codebase in
any way?

For incubation, the process of reviewing the codebase and double checking
that the contents are in fact open source is what is important. We do our
best to trust the project teams procedures to ensure the codebase remains
open source after incubation. Those procedures usually focus on ensuring
contributions are either open source, or contributed under a license that
allows open source distribution. But it is really up to the team
(conducting an additional review/audit, or having an external party to
review) are not un head of.

License changes are fine, but tricky - usually need to contact all the
contributors (or have the code provided under a contribution license which
permits the PSC to change license).

The PSC can transfer copyright to OSGeo at any point (it does not need to
take place during incubation, it is just a "service" that OSGeo can provide
since it is a legal entity). Clarification - the PSC can only transfer
copyright to OSGeo if it was a legal entity. If not the PSC ends up hunting
down all the contributors (as we did for the GeoTools project) and asking
them each to sign a contribution agreement one at a time...



--
Jody Garnett

On 11 September 2016 at 00:54, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all: FYI update on PyWPS incubation: PyWPS has made much progress
> in the last months (see [1]), with a few remaining tasks before bringing
> the project forward.
>
> As project mentor I'm looking for clarification/guidance on the following:
>
> - our (8 year old) incubation process is rooted in PyWPS 3.  Since then
> PyWPS 4 has been in development which includes a change in
> license (the project is at the 4.0.0-rc2 stage). Are there any issues with
> us continuing on the PyWPS 3 path for OSGeo Incubation? Note we have
> kept on the PyWPS 3 path for incubation by design to be consistent with
> our approved inbucation process, as well as relevant activities (PyWPS 3
> is now a part of OSGeo-Live for example), and given PyWPS 4 is not
> final, or mature for that matter
>
> - transfer copyright to OSGeo: this is in discussion in [2].  If we did
> decide
> to do this, when does this happen?  Before the provenance review? As part
> of the Project Graduation Checklist?  Something else?
>
> Clarification/guidance would be much appreciated at this point, given we
> are
> just about to start the provenance review.
>
> Thanks
>
> ..Tom
>
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/pywps-dev/2016-September/000889.html
> [2] https://github.com/geopython/pywps/issues/84#issuecomment-189980128
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