[Incubator] Masterportal application to OSGeo community program

[Angelos Tzotsos]

https://gitea.osgeo.org/osgeo/projects-support/issues/8

On 9/11/23 22:11, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Catching up with master portal:
>
> The team has applied back in January, and have been working on meeting our
> requirements for code of conduct, code review and so forth.
>
>
>     1. Be geospatial
>        - Confirm by checking README or project description
>
>        https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/dev/README.md
>
>        - project page on the osgeo website
>        https://www.osgeo.org/projects/masterportal/ (looks good)
>        - We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an OSGeo
>        Live quickstart
>
>        https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/dev/doc/setup.md
>
>        2. Have a free license or an open source license.
>        - The license must be OSI approved
>
>        https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/dev/License.txt
>         (MIT)
>        - We ask that the project team check the file headers and double
>        check the license has been appropriately applied
>        Not sure I see this anywhere yet? Seeking a statement from the team...
>        Doing a spot check of a few files:
>        -
>           https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/dev/modules/menu/checkChildrenDatasets.js
> (no
>           header)
>           -
>           https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/dev/modules/menu/desktop/staticlink/view.js
> (no
>           header)
>           -
>
> *Jody: So not sure what to do here, perhaps provide the team with examples?
>           The point is not really the headers, the point is the
> confidence that you
>           can distribute this as open-source Teams traditionally find a few code
>           snippets from stack exchange, or an example from another project, that
>           requires attention.*
>        3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
>        - We look for a clear contribution policy
>           - *Jody: **I did not see anything here? The developers docs have
>           code conventions and git workflow - but nothing about the
>           contributing/license/side of things*
>           -
>
> *https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/cff117bb78225af2f3c01a3f895c8cec3e792e4f/doc/gitWorkflow.md
>           <https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/cff117bb78225af2f3c01a3f895c8cec3e792e4f/doc/gitWorkflow.md>
>           This indicates some boundaries about external-developers and
> commit rights,
>           but not about permission or providence of code being offered as a
>           pull-request. This boundary about commit rights is fine for an "osgeo
>           community" project, but not for a full "osgeo project" which
> requires some
>           avenue for folks to ear full commit rights and participate in the
>           governance of Masterportal.*
>        - We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a
>        history of bug report or pull requests
>        https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/pull-requests
>        - Projects are required to have a code of conduct
>
>        https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/src/dev/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
>
>
> The masterportal team is very intent on entering incubation; and keep
> trying to skip ahead 🙂
>
> I am going to take the unusual step of opening bug tickets for the
> remaining discussion points:
>
>     -
>     https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/issues/1076/osgeo-community-project-application-clear
>     -
>     https://bitbucket.org/geowerkstatt-hamburg/masterportal/issues/1077/osgeo-community-project-application-check
>
>
> When these tickets are closed I will be happy to motion that this project
> be accepted into the "osgeo incubation" program.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President, Board of Directors
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/