[Incubator] Proposing Loader as an OSGeo Community Project

Fri Aug 3 01:33:37 PDT 2018

Hi,

This is good news, more projects being added to OSGeo :)

On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:

> Hi Jody,
>
> Many thanks for your response.
>
> We've taken on board the comment about the contributors license, and gone
> for the approach that openlayers uses, this is now reflected at
> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#
> contributor-license-agreement
>
> Regarding license headers- since it's licensed under MIT, then as far as
> we can tell there isn't a legal requirement to include them, however if
> from an OSGeo perspective you would like us to, then we can do that.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jo
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 5:21 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In terms of adding it to the website:
>>
>> 1. geospatial
>>
>> check :)
>>
>> 2. open source
>>
>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
>> - check
>>
>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/python/loader.py
>> - no header but perhaps that is not the python way?
>>
>> 3. participatory
>>
>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
>> - check
>> - double check - odd it does not mention to contributors that they are
>> releasing their contribution as open source?
>>
>> https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
>> - can see a stream of pull requests
>>
>> 4. checking headers (see table https://wiki.osgeo.org/w
>> iki/OSGeo_Community_Projects)
>>
>> Not sure what to do on this one, if the python projects are not used to
>> having headers it seems silly to ask. The goal of the table above was to
>> split up the work of "providence review" and focus on checking headers
>> (which can be done with sed or similar) just as a sanity check that all the
>> source code is in fact open source.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 02:48, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Incubation List,
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose Loader (https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader)
>>> as an OSGeo Community Project.
>>>
>>> Switching hats from being an Incubation Committee Member- Loader was
>>> developed by my colleague at Astun Technology, Matt Walker, as a
>>> high-performance python wrapper around ogr2ogr, for primarily loading large
>>> quantities of Ordnance Survey Mastermap data into postgreSQL (or other
>>> formats). It has since been expanded to cover the loading of other Ordnance
>>> Survey data sources, the most recent work being around loading data for
>>> routing.
>>>
>>> Loader is licensed under an MIT license, accepts contributions, and has
>>> a relatively active community- it's used by a lot of organisations for bulk
>>> loading data, including the Ordnance Survey themselves. I think it meets
>>> the requirements for a Community Project already but I'm happy to be
>>> corrected.
>>>
>>> In the longer term we'd like to put it forward for full Incubation, but
>>> one step at a time!
>>>
>>> If there's any conflict of interest with me being a member of the
>>> Incubation Committee and with a vested interest in Loader then please let
>>> me know.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>>
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>
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