[MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi Just,

great to have you on board!

I requested a -dev list from the OSGeo, but this might take a few days to be setup. 

I sketched up a draft for the PSC guidelines: https://github.com/mapproxy/mapproxy/wiki/PSC-Guidelines (ok, I mostly copy&pasted from the MapServer guideline). Let me know what you and everyone else is thinking about it.


Regards,
Oliver

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Oliver Tonnhofer  | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG  | https://omniscale.com
OpenStreetMap WMS and tile services         | https://maps.omniscale.com







> On 3. Apr 2020, at 22:02, Just van den Broecke <just at justobjects.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> Kudos! You and team did so much to make MapProxy a/the Swiss (ok German ;-) ) army knive for tiling. Thank you for that! As a daily user and promoter of MapProxy I would really like this great project to sustain and grow. Though I have not made (code) contributions, I hereby offer my help in any way, like PSC member. We have a growing GeoPython project community at https://github.com/geopython where I do contribute actively to several projects.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Just van den Broecke
> The Netherlands
> 
> On 03-04-20 15:31, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi Oliver, all
>> I was wondering what happened with MapProxy and OSGeo incubation and found the following links:
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/851
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapProxy_Incubation_Application
>> I think this is a good time to form a PSC and add MapProxy as an OSGeo Community Project.
>> Best regards,
>> Angelos
>> On 4/3/20 3:57 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I hope you are all doing fine in this difficult time.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to share a few information about the MapProxy project and its future.
>>> 
>>> You all might have noticed that my responses on this lists became rare, and
>>> that the development of new futures slowed down. This is related to how the
>>> business changed for our company Omniscale in the last few years and it is now
>>> clear for us, that we won't continue to work on MapProxy in the future.
>>> 
>>> However, MapProxy is far from dead. It is in use all around the world and not
>>> only by end-users, but also by companies that have long term business interest
>>> in MapProxy.
>>> 
>>> I think that being the single vendor of MapProxy hindered other developers from
>>> becoming more active in the past. We like to change this in the coming weeks
>>> and months.
>>> 
>>> Right now we have a few developers that are working on improving the dimension
>>> support in MapProxy. We also talked to a few companies that would love to
>>> become more active in the development of MapProxy. So I'm confident that we can
>>> build an active developer community.
>>> 
>>> I want to bring this forward by building a formal foundation for MapProxy aka
>>> Project Steering Committee (PSC), similar to a lot of other open source
>>> projects.
>>> 
>>> You can read the PSC guidelines of OpenLayers and MapServer as an example:
>>> - https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/wiki/Steering-Committee
>>> - https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html
>>> 
>>> I will ask a few users and developers off-list in the next week if they are
>>> interested in becoming a member of the PSC. Please feel free to e-mail me if
>>> you are also interested or if you want to nominate someone. I think we should
>>> start with 5-10 members.
>>> 
>>> Please also let me know if you have any comments about the PSC in general and
>>> the PSC guidelines.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Oliver
>>> 
> 
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