[Incubator] MDAL OSGeo Community Project Application Request

Mon Dec 7 03:11:42 PST 2020

Hi Jody,

There's a statement on contributing in the readme at
https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/blob/master/README.md- I felt
it was clear enough?

Ideally my vote should close today, but we don't have a quorum so
shall we just keep it open for another fortnight or do you want to
make a separate CONTRIBUTING.md file a condition of acceptance?

Jo

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 6:51 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I see that Jo made a motion, but I did find a review handy ...
>
> Grabbing the checklist from here, and checking project repository:
>
> 1. Be geospatial
>
> Confirm by checking README or project description
> project page on the osgeo website
> We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an OSGeo Live quickstart
>
> README (https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/blob/master/README.md) looks good.
>
> Website page (https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal/) looks good, ideally the logo is on a white background so it shows up like on other pages.  If there is a screen snap or something (you mentioned use in QGIS) it really helps the page communicate the project working with meteorology and hydrology data.
>
> The page links to documentation (https://www.mdal.xyz) but I do not see a quickstart on using the library. I was looking forward to seeing some C++ code, I even hunted around in the tutorials (https://www.mdal.xyz/tutorials/index.html). The README had some tips on building but not using the library.
>
> 2. Have a free license or an open source license.
>
> The license must be OSI approved
> We ask that the project team check the file headers and double check the license has been appropriately applied
>
>
> Nice clear MIT LICENSE (https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/blob/master/LICENSE).
>
> Do you have a record of checking the headers somewhere? Looking at the codebase myself everything seemed good. But the idea is the project team checks ...
>
> 3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
>
> We look for a clear contribution policy
> We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a history of bug report or pull requests
> Projects are required to have a code of conduct
>
>
> I do not see a CONTRIBUTING.md file.
> Digging deeper the manual has something on community (https://www.mdal.xyz/community.html) with a section covering development and welcoming pull requests. A CONTRIBUTING.md file is still recommended as the project is hosted on GitHub.
> - As an example the project contains a list of AUTHORS (https://github.com/lutraconsulting/MDAL/blob/master/AUTHORS)  is this file updated when accepting a PR from a new contributor?
> - Does they new contributor add their copyright to the header when updating a file?
> - How about when a contributor is adding a new file ...
>
> Nice clear pull request history. are they all from Vincent Cloarec? Who may be from an external organization? Checking commit history to try and answer this question, other authors are committing directly on a very active codebase.
>
> Nice clear code of conduct.
>
> So I am soft +1 on this one:
> - I see nothing missing - it looks to be an interesting active project :)
> - would like to double check that the team checked headers
> - ask that the team pick up their section from the user manual into a CONTIRBUTING.md, and perhaps add to it over time
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 23:24, Peter Petrik <peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We would like to proceed with the application process for MDAL but haven't received any updates for a few months. Is there anything we can do to continue with the process?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Peter
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:46 AM Peter Petrik <peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> any update on the reviewing the application? Are any steps needed from our side?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:56 PM Peter Petrik <peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> the mdal-developer mailing list is completed, thank you for assistance.
>>>> Are there some regular incubator committee meetings where you discuss applications?
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:40 AM Peter Petrik <peter.petrik at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi OSGeo!,
>>>>>
>>>>> We have been working with Jody (thanks!) on preparing the application of MDAL for OSGeo Community Project, see https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2020-September/039048.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe the page https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mdal/ is finished, and I also submitted request for a MDAL-Development mail list (ongoing https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2509#ticket)
>>>>>
>>>>> We would like to kindly ask the committee to review our application and let us know the next steps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Peter for MDAL team
>>>>> https://www.mdal.xyz
>>>>>
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