[Incubator] Projects Waiting for a Mentor

[Jody Garnett]

The tickets were for projects wanting to join incubation, so zoo-project
and others had applied previously and those tickets were closed when they
were accepted.

Here is the list of closed tickets:
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=closed&component=Incubator&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&order=priority

Johan your frustration is the length of time projects spend in incubation
is shared.

I know when my own project entered incubation the interested parties
(volunteers and potential customers) who were asked GeoServer to "join
osgeo" - vanished when the project entered incubation. Simply entering
incubation was enough of a marketing message that there was no longer a
business driver to continue working on it. I assume this is a common
pattern that affects the other project teams here.

To water down the marketing message we are no longer calling out incubating
projects on the new website; to get the full force of "joining" OSGeo a
project will need to complete incubation.

To make that easier to take we are also promoting OSGeo community projects;
which is how the projects in incubation will be listed. To qualify projects
ned to be geospatial, open source and accept contributions. I am willing to
break out graduation requirements up so projects can easily share how far
along they are in the incubation checklist (if participants feel it would
communicate progress).



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Jody Garnett

On 30 July 2017 at 12:57, Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Note I think that zoo-project and opticks are incubation because they
> are listed here: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator - it looks like they
> don't have a ticket, as different others mentioned there.
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Johan Van de Wauw
> <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I went and checked - and removed the GeoNode incubation application.
> >>
> >> Here is a link to trac:
> >> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/query?status=assigned&status=
> new&status=reopened&component=Incubator&col=id&col=summary&
> col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=
> component&order=priority
> >>
> >> Of you want a quick win we it would be great to contact community
> projects
> >> and check that they have the new logo, if they are interested in
> incubation,
> >> are aware of the new website (and have filled in the form to be
> listed). I
> >
> > Rather then adding new projects to incubation, I believe we should
> > (drastically) speed up incubation for projects already in incubation.
> >
> > I failed to find a post in the archive of this mailing list for the
> > last *year* for eg the incubation of Opticks or zoo-project.
> >
> > Come on, the requirements for incubation are not hard, if we fail to
> > help projects incubate within one year I believe either we are not
> > doing the right thing or they are not genuinely interested in
> > incubation. Stretching things too long only makes it more painful if
> > projects are rejected in the end.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Johan
>
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