[Incubator] CONTRIBUTING.md and LICENSE.md not a requirement for incubating projects?

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

this was always "Jody's checklist" for the community projects and I would
agree on that.

My +1 on this for OSGeo projects (I'm not committee member though)

J

út 12. 9. 2017 v 11:32 odesílatel Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi incubation committee,
>
> One thing the OSGeo-Live community have picked up is that OSGeo Community
> projects are being asked for CONTRIBUTING.md and LICENSE.md files [1],
> however there isn't an obvious corresponding requirement for this in the
> OSGeo Incubation Graduation Checklist [2].
>
> I'd suggest that the Graduation Checklist probably needs updating.
>
> I also notice the requirement for Community projects to check headers for
> Open Source compliance, although there isn't  specific guidance on how such
> checks should be applied. It sounds very similar to a "Provenance Review".
> Our experience with OSGeo incubation is that the "Provenance Review" is
> usually the biggest time sink and stumbling block for projects going
> through incubation. I'd be interested to hear Jody's thoughts on this.
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects
>
> [2]
> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
>
>
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