[Incubator] GeoLens community project application

[Jody Garnett]

 The board has not really provided guidance on vibe coding.

My own personal opinion is that open source requires collaboration - the
test our incubation process has is to have input from several organizations
(not just several developers) in order to offer users some assurance that a
project will be sustained. With that in mind, while I am okay with AI being
used for assistance / reference, it has some weakness from the
sustainability angle.

The above is my own take only; there was some osgeo discussion over the
summer but I did not understand the result.
- -
Jody Garnett


On Sep 28, 2026 at 2:55:04 PM, Ian Shiland <ishiland at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Even,
>
> Yes. AI coding agents, mainly Claude Code with Codex as a reviewer, write
> most of GeoLens with guidance from me.
>
> If this is grounds for ineligibility, I'll withdraw the page submission.
>
> Ian
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> @Ian looking at the commit history and pull request history, this is
>> obviously vibe coded. Can you confirm ?
>>
>> @Jody  Is this OK for vibe coded projects to be community projects ?
>>
>> Even
>> Le 28/09/2026 à 23:15, Ian Shiland via Incubator a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Thanks for the access. The GeoLens project page is now submitted for
>> review. I left the project type as None for now and will switch it to
>> Community Project once the committee confirms. Let me know if anything on
>> the page needs changing.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 12:33 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ian,
>>>
>>> I added you as project author role, so you should be able to create a
>>> page now!
>>> - -
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 20, 2026 at 7:42:07 AM, Ian Shiland <ishiland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jody,
>>>>
>>>> I’ve confirmed that my OSGeo account, ishiland, still cannot access the
>>>> Projects dashboard - it returns a permission error. Could you enable
>>>> project-author access and confirm the current status of GeoLens’s Community
>>>> Project application? The listing content and logo are ready.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ian
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 1:42 PM Ian Shiland <ishiland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jody,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an OSGeo user id now: *ishiland*. Regina sent a mantra through
>>>>> sysadmin, so registration is done and a profile has been created.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ian
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 1:57 PM Ian Shiland <ishiland at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jody, I've requested a mantra from mantra-request at osgeo.org so I
>>>>>> can create the account. I'll send the user id as soon as it comes through.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 1:33 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please provide your osgeo user id, and sign into the osgeo.org website
>>>>>>> to fill in your profile information. Then I can grant the profile
>>>>>>> permission to make a new project page.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For more information see:
>>>>>>> https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-a-project/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - -
>>>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Aug 21, 2026 at 6:33:34 AM, Ian Shiland via Incubator <
>>>>>>> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'd like to apply for OSGeo Community Project status for GeoLens, a
>>>>>>>> self-hosted geospatial data catalog and map builder built on PostGIS. It
>>>>>>>> ingests common vector and raster formats, serves them through OGC API -
>>>>>>>> Features, OGC API - Records, STAC and DCAT, and includes a web map builder
>>>>>>>> with vector tiles.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    - Repository: https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens (Apache-2.0)
>>>>>>>>    - User documentation: https://docs.getgeolens.com
>>>>>>>>    - Live demo: https://demo.getgeolens.com
>>>>>>>>    - Contribution policy: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md (DCO)
>>>>>>>>    - Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (Contributor Covenant)
>>>>>>>>    - Issue tracker and discussions: public on GitHub
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The first public release was June 2026 and the project has shipped
>>>>>>>> regular tagged releases since (currently v1.14.1). The repository has
>>>>>>>> issues and pull requests from outside contributors, and GeoLibre (an
>>>>>>>> OpenGeos project) ships a built-in GeoLens integration that I've
>>>>>>>> contributed fixes back to.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If a project listing on osgeo.org needs to exist before this
>>>>>>>> application, point me at the right process and I'll take care of it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Happy to answer any questions.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ian Shiland
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>>>>>>>
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