[Incubator] Application to accept pygeoapi as OSGeo Community Project

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jody and thanks for the feedback.

Comments inline:

On 6/3/19 10:53 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> First up welcome pygeoapi and thanks for your application.
>
> The first thing I checked was if the project has an osgeo project page (it
> does https://www.osgeo.org/projects/pygeoapi/). I think the "emerging suite
> of OGC API standards" has a name of some sort but I agree it has not been
> fixed yet?  I like that there is a demo server :)

The standard name was switched from WFS3 to OGC API - Features but lets 
wait for the OGC Hackathon to be over to make sure another change does 
not happen. We will update the page once we have feedback.

>
> 1. Geospatial
>
> README.md <https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/README.md>,
> looks good :) As above you may wish to name the standard being implemented.

Will be added as above

>
> 2. Open Source license [6]
>
> LICENSE <https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/LICENSE> is
> good, you may wish to use markdown version here
> <https://github.com/IQAndreas/markdown-licenses> for pretty?
> For community project (rather than just website) we ask that headers also
> be checked... I see you are doing that below.

Fixed in https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/pull/165

>
>
>
> 3. Open to contributions [7]
>
> Nice to see evidence of contributors
> <https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/graphs/contributors> taking part
> (also noted diverse authors in headers).
>
> It is a good practice, that we check for to at least recommend, to use
> CONTRIBUTING.md. This outlines what you expect of contributors and is a
> good spot to remind folks they are agreeing to publish their work using
> that MIT license.

Fixed in https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/pull/164

>
> 4. License headers [8]
>
> Doing a few spot checks:
> - pygeoapi-serverless-config.yml
> <https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/aws-lambda/pygeoapi-serverless-config.yml>
> -
> needs header
> - pygeoapi/debian/copyright
> <https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/debian/copyright> -
> actually has a different license
> - pygeoapi/docker/entrypoint.sh - needs header
> - pygeoapi/docker/examples - no sign of header?
> - pygeoapi/api.py
> <https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/blob/master/pygeoapi/api.py> - core
> code looks good
> - tests/data/README.md - nicely done documenting where sample data was
> obtained from :)

Fixed in https://github.com/geopython/pygeoapi/pull/165

>
> Let me know about the feedback above, and thanks again for your application

Best,
Angelos


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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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