[Incubator] [Board] mapfish project status

[Bruce Bannerman]

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Bruce


> On 21 Nov 2019, at 07:52, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jody, I'd suggest that this should be managed at the level of the OSGeo Incubation Committee rather than at the OSGeo Board.
> 
> As a Incubation Committee member, I'd suggest giving MapFish a period of time (say 3 months?) to re-validate their incubation status, and during that time have them remain as an incubated project. We don't have a process yet for this, so we probably should write the process as we go.
> 
> On 19/11/19 11:02 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Earlier this year we places several osgeo projects that were not communicating (or no longer meeting osgeo expectations) into the OSGeo community program.
>> 
>> One project that asked for some more time was mapfish:
>> 
>> * The mapfish.org <http://mapfish.org/>http://www.mapfish.org/ <http://www.mapfish.org/> website uses the old logo and documents MapFish 2.2 released in 2016
>> * The osgeo project page was never filled in https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mapfish/ <https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mapfish/> (1)
>> 
>> The good news is that the the project is very much alive, has a new GeoMapFish name, website <https://geomapfish.org/>, code base <http://github.com/camptocamp/c2cgeoportal>, and a new development team (indeed I am not sure if any current members took part in the incubation process).
>> 
>> On the bright side Emmanuel and the MapFisk PSC produced a page for the AGM (slide 59) which is great and really improves communication.
>> 
>> My question though is simple - should we remove MapFish as an OSGeo project, and invite GeoMapFish to apply to the OSGeo Community program, or should we ask this PSC to quick march this project through the incubation checklist requirements to preserve continuity?
>> 
>> Emmanuel would you be able to attend the board meeting to provide an update on this project? If you need help setting up osgeo project page we are happy to do so on the incubation email list.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>> 
>> (1) Wishing to recommend mapfish today and finding this page is what promoted this email
>> 
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