[Incubator] OSGeo Community Project XYZ/Mapp

[Jody Garnett]

 He Dinnis thanks for returning to this activity.

I <https://github.com/GEOLYTIX/xyz/tree/v4> am assuming that
https://github.com/GEOLYTIX/xyz/tree/v4 is still the correct thing to look
at for the website  checklist
<https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/>:


   1. geospatial - https://github.com/GEOLYTIX/xyz/tree/v4
   SDI in the description, but it seems to be more about service control?
   2. open source license - https://github.com/GEOLYTIX/xyz/blob/v4/LICENSE
   MIT which is an OSI approved licese
   3. accepts contributions:
   I do not see a CONTRIBUTING.md file (which is the GitHub forge
   convention for accepting contributions. It is shown to potential
   contributors getting you some minimal idea that they know what they are
   doing contributing to your project on purpose)
   https://github.com/GEOLYTIX/xyz/pulls
   I did not go through this in detail to see this has examples of external
   contributions or not?


What I am looking for is some evidence you have thought about accepting
contributions (an this is not just a project where the only way to
contribute is to be an employee or something).
- -
Jody Garnett


On Jul 30, 2024 at 4:21:56 AM, Dennis Bauszus <dennis.bauszus at geolytix.co.uk>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am hoping to pick up the process again of making XYZ/MAPP an OSGeo
> community project.
>
> A couple of years have passed since the last email on this thread and a
> lot of development, documentation, and testing work has been provided to
> the project in the meantime.
>
> I am currently sitting in on the OSGeo:UK code sprint with Nick and
> getting advice on the steps of adding a project to the website.
>
> Following the notes on the incubation committee website I read that I need
> permission for my OSGeo userid [dbauszus] to create a project page.
>
> I hope you can help with this.
>
> Best,
> Dennis Bauszus
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:07 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greg, you are very much welcome to take part, and thanks for helping with
>> community outreach :)
>>
>> The "osgeo community" which xyz/Mapp is appling for is a bit more
>> light-weight than full "incubation" so it is enough to establish how
>> contributions are made rather than have a full track record.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 at 14:34, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dennis Bauszus <dennis.bauszus at geolytix.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>> > Thank you for your response Greg,
>>>
>>> Note that I am just a random person, not a board member, not a formal
>>> incubator committee member, and not even an osgeo charter member.
>>>
>>> > I will review the contribution rules and make the necessary changes to
>>> the
>>> > repository in the next couple of weeks.
>>> >
>>> > I will let you know when these changes have been made.
>>> >
>>> > Is there any project that started as private and made a move towards
>>> the
>>> > community later on which you can recommend me?
>>>
>>> I do not have any examples at hand.  Basically an open source project
>>> should operate more or less without regard to contributor's
>>> affiliations.  As usual, my opinion, unclear the extent to which the
>>> larger osgeo community agrees.
>>>
>>> However, I would suggest that if you have in place processes about how
>>> contributions are accepted, and a clear policy on true open source vs
>>> open-core or proprietary relicensing, and it's just not written down,
>>> then describing reality should be easy.
>>>
>>> If there is no track record of contributions from people outside your
>>> company, then I would say you are not ready for incubation.  Again just
>>> my opinion.
>>>
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