[Incubator] motion: accept blink as a community project

Howard Butler howard at hobu.co
Mon Jan 29 08:35:07 PST 2018


Do'h. I retract my -1.

+1 to Community project for Blink. Sorry for the confusion.

Howard


On 1/29/18 9:51 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi Howard,
>
> I think you may have mixed Incubation and Community Project. Blink is
> not applying for Incubation, the motion is about listing them as a
> community project.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 2018-01-29 10:04 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
>> I'm -1 for a couple of reasons:
>>
>> - There's no activity on the GitHub that shows there's a community
>> there yet. There isn't one closed or open issue, and there's only one
>> pull request with a typo fix from an outside contributor.
>> - Incubation is a burden on the contributor base of the OSGeo
>> organization, and the effort should be saved for projects that are
>> very likely to be successful.
>>
>> I'm :thumbsup: on the Blink library itself, and it looks quite
>> interesting. I think Blink should resubmit itself for OSGeo
>> incubation once it has some of the properties that OSGeo desires for
>> incubating projects. These include a compatible project governance
>> model and significant contributions from more than one primary
>> contributor or organization.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>>> On Jan 28, 2018, at 12:31 PM, Daniel Morissette
>>> <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 15 January 2018 at 20:05, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>     The following motion has been made by Landon Blake:
>>>>         I'd like to make a motion that we accept Blink Raster (
>>>>           www.github.com/ahhz/raster
>>>>         <http://www.github.com/ahhz/raster>) as an OSGeo Community
>>>> Project.
>>>>     The requirements
>>>>    
>>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Joining_OSGeo>
>>>>     as per previous portable gis motion:
>>>>      1. Selection of an open source license if the project hasn't
>>>>         already done so.
>>>>      2. Checking your source code headers and history
>>>>      3. Setup appropriate LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING and README files (for
>>>>         github projects)
>>>>     The following additional criteria are available for your
>>>>     consideration only:
>>>>       * confirmation that project has committers
>>>>       * confirmation that project does not require data or service
>>>>         license to function
>>>>     This motion is held open for two weeks closing January 29th,
>>>>     requiring 50% quorum, from the following incubation committee
>>>> members:
>>>>       * Bruce Bannerman
>>>>       * Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>>>>       * Landon Blake +1 initial motion
>>>>       * Howard Butler
>>>>       * Arnulf Christl
>>>>       * Jody Garnett
>>>>       * Dimitris Kotzinos
>>>>       * Tom Kralidis
>>>>       * Julien-Samuel Lacroix
>>>>       * Mark Lucas
>>>>       * Steve Lime
>>>>       * Daniel Morissette
>>>>       * Markus Schneider
>>>>       * Cameron Shorter
>>>>       * Norman Vine
>>>>       * Frank Warmerdam
>>>>     --
>>>>     Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Daniel Morissette
>>> Mapgears Inc
>>> T: +1 418-696-5056 #201
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