[Incubator] Move Community Project applications to issue tracker

[Jody Garnett]

 That is indeed a good point about needing access to setup OSGeo website
page.

So a bit harder to start out with, but then logging into the website is
easier. And we can probably tell the name of their osgeo id from the
initial repot.
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Jody Garnett


On Jan 15, 2026 at 10:02:56 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> I prefer gitea.  It’s a bit harder since they need an OSGeo account, but
> they are eventually going to need one anyway so that might as well be one
> of the first things they do before filling out requests to become a
> community project etc.
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> Also if we move incubator list to discourse, which I think is our plan
> (which does allow signup with github account), they can start the
> processing with a request to the list.
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> *From:* Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf Of *Dennis
> Bauszus via Incubator
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 15, 2026 11:12 AM
> *To:* Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Incubator] Move Community Project applications to issue
> tracker
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> I am not on the committee but believe that using GitHub tickets would make
> this easier for new applications as it is possible to review previous
> applications.
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> Best,
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> Dennis
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> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 7:31 PM Jody Garnett via Incubator <
> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> I really like the idea Angelos, especially since this is developer
> outreach - an issue tracker is great!
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>    - Have issue template for "add to website", "join community project",
>    "osgeo project incubation", ...
>    - We actually already have the markdown for some of these...
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> I would prefer github (because outreach) but would be okay with gitea
> (ideally if we can make the signup process a bit easier.)
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> - -
>
> Jody Garnett
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> On Jan 14, 2026 at 8:58:11 AM, Angelos Tzotsos via Incubator <
> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> One idea that came up during the Incubation Budget meeting, was to make
> community project applications easier to review.
> I propose we move the application process to opening a templated issue
> (GitHub or Gitea) and require one incubation committee member to review.
>
> I volunteer to move all the pending applications to this new issue tracker.
>
> Perhaps we should consider the same for Projects applying for Incubation
> (currently a ticket is required on Trac).
>
> Thoughts? Objections?
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> President, Board of Directors
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/
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