[Incubator] Document General Principles of Incubation

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm in favour of deprecating this General Principles of Incubation.

Reasons:

1. Our Graduation Checklist does a better job of explaining the 
principles of OSGeo incubation.

2. It is simpler for new users to find the right material if we just 
keep it in one place.

3. We reduce our maintenance burden

4. We reduce the risk of documents describing conflicting information

Cameron


On 11/1/18 6:54 pm, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Looking at documents on drupal osgeo.org <http://osgeo.org> website to 
> migrate to wiki.
>
>   * website: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/principles.html
>   * wiki: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/General_Principles_of_Incubation
>
> This document was written in July 2006 and is pretty clear.
> The wiki page has comments from Cameron indicating this document is 
> outdated and could be replaced (cross linking to our project checklist).
>
> Suggestions/discussion?
>
>     Purpose
>
>     The purpose of the OSGeo incubation process is to ensure that
>     projects that are officially part of OSGeo:
>
>       * have a successfully operating open and collaborative
>         development community
>       * have clear IP oversight of the code base of the project
>       * adopt the OSGeo principles and operating principles
>       * are mentored through the incubation process
>
>     Principles of OSGeo Projects (The OSGeo Way)
>
>       * Projects should manage themselves, striving for consensus and
>         encouraging participation from all contributors - from
>         beginning users to advanced developers.
>       * Contributors are the scarce resource and successful projects
>         court and encourage them.
>       * Projects are encouraged to adopt open standards and
>         collaborate with other OSGeo projects.
>       * Projects are responsible for reviewing and controlling their
>         code bases to insure the integrity of the open source baselines.
>
>     Operating Principles
>
>       * Projects should document how they manage themselves.
>       * Projects should maintain developer and user documentation.
>       * Projects should maintain a source code management system.
>       * Projects should maintain an issue tracking system.
>       * Projects should maintain project mailing lists.
>       * Projects should actively promote their participation in OSGeo.
>       * Projects are encouraged to adopt OSGeo look and feel,
>         branding, logos on their project sites.
>       * Projects are encouraged to participate in OSGeo
>         standardization efforts to present a common interface for
>         OSGeo visitors and members.
>       * Projects should have automated build and smoke test systems.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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Cameron Shorter
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