[Incubator] [Board] mapfish project status

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 19:33:52 PST 2019


aside: Going to do my best to leave this conversation on the board list,
the GeoMapFish project is returned to us (as a community project to enter
incubation that is fine), as long as it is a osgeo project I feel that it
should report to the board like any other committee.
--
Jody Garnett


On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 14:10, Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> 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.orghttp://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/ (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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