[Incubator] Propose SLDEditor for incubation

Tue Sep 20 09:07:18 PDT 2016

Hi Bob, All,

That's a very good question. The graduation checklist I was alluding to 
is probably the best reference for any team that is considering applying 
for OSGeo incubation:

http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html

While there is no documented minimum threshold to be allowed to "enter" 
incubation, a project has to have reasonable chances to meet the 
criteria within months, or a year max, otherwise we'll end up with more 
projects stuck in incubation for multiple years.

In the specific case of SLDEditor, I see a single project contributor 
(bus number issue) and the size of the user community sounds quite small 
as well (but I'd love to be proven wrong).

Plus the project's site itself sounds unsure about the future of the 
project:

https://github.com/robward-scisys/sldeditor#project-state

"""
Project State

The application is not complete, however is at the stage where I need to 
know whether there is enough interest from the open source GIS community 
to complete it.
"""

All this leads me to conclude that some work is required to get to a 
first release and work on the bus number issue by starting to grow a 
community of users and contributors before considering OSGeo incubation.

BTW, I think there is interest for such a project in our community... 
the project just hasn't met the critical mass to consider incubation yet.

That's just my opinion. If the majority of IncCom members think 
otherwise then I am willing to turn my -1 into a -0.

Daniel

On 2016-09-20 11:48 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
> All,
>
> Is there a specific criteria list that should be used as a gauge by the
> authors to use before a resubmit for incubation?
>
> What specifically needs to happen in order to reverse opinions listed in
> this Thread.
>
> I think it prudent to put to text, some sort of specific list that the
> software developers can use as a target for the future.
>
> bobb
>
>
>
>
>> On Sep 20, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Daniel Morissette
>> <dmorissette at mapgears.com <mailto:dmorissette at mapgears.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Cameron. Based on what I see in the application ticket
>> and in the project's README.md page I don't think that SLDEditor is
>> close enough to the level of maturity required to meet the graduation
>> criteria, so there is not much use in entering incubation at this
>> point. For this reason, I'm -1 on the project entering incubation for
>> now, but sincerely hope that Robert and the project team will reapply
>> once it is more mature and has more chances of passing the graduation
>> criteria.
>>
>> However it should definitely be listed as Community project while the
>> project works to grow its community of users and contributors and
>> works on the other items from the incubation checklist.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2016-09-20 5:21 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Hi Ian,
>>>
>>> I'm +1 for SLD Editor being registered as an OSGeo Community Project
>>> (previously called OSGeo Labs):
>>>
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects
>>>
>>>
>>> However, I'm -0 for SLD Editor being selected as an "OSGeo Project in
>>> Graduation" yet as it implies a level of maturity that I don't think SLD
>>> Editor has reached yet.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20/09/2016 6:29 PM, Ian Turton wrote:
>>>> This proposal and the related ticket
>>>> <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1782> have been around for a
>>>> month now.
>>>>
>>>> Can I ask the incubation committee for a vote one way or the other
>>>> please?
>>>>
>>>> We'd like to get started :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Ian
>>>>
>>>> On 24 August 2016 at 12:42, Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:ijturton at gmail.com>
>>>> <mailto:ijturton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    I've volunteered to mentor SLDEditor during the incubator process,
>>>>    so I would like to move that the project be accepted for incubation.
>>>>
>>>>    SLDEditor (https://github.com/robward-scisys/sldeditor
>>>>    <https://github.com/robward-scisys/sldeditor>) is Java desktop
>>>>    application that allows the creation and editing of OGC Styled
>>>>    Layer Descriptors. It is based on the GeoTools library and aims to
>>>>    produce SLD that is standards compliant but also allows the user
>>>>    to make use of the GeoServer vendor options if required.
>>>>
>>>>    There has been some previous discussion about the project on this
>>>>    list
>>>>    (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail//incubator/2016-June/003096.html <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail//incubator/2016-June/003096.html>).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Thanks
>>>>
>>>>    Ian
>>>>
>>>>    --
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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