[OpenLayers-Dev] proposal for GeoExt governance

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

GeoExt is a project that aims to provide an Ext based toolkit for 
developing applications with OpenLayers.  The library will extend Ext 
widgets and data management classes with mapping functionality from 
OpenLayers.

The GeoExt project steering committee and existing users and developers 
are interested in assigning copyright for the GeoExt code base to the 
OSGeo foundation.  For OSGeo to accept copyright, it would be ideal if 
an existing OSGeo project could participate in the governance of the 
GeoExt project.

Our hope (as the GeoExt PSC) is that the OpenLayers PSC would accept 
this responsibility.  Exactly what "participate in the governance" means 
is a little hard to nail down.  I've put together a proposal with a bit 
more specific language:

http://www.geoext.org/trac/geoext/wiki/governance

I'd like to open discussion on this proposal and get a vote from the 
OpenLayers PSC some time next week.

What this means for the OpenLayers PSC:

The OpenLayers PSC requires that the GeoExt PSC provides evidence that 
GeoExt is following the criteria for becoming an OSGeo member project 
(as far as I can tell, this is best described here 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs#Criteria).

In practice, this will mean that the OpenLayers PSC will request that 
the GeoExt PSC provide information on contributors and signed 
contributor license agreements, and that the GeoExt PSC maintains the 
"geospatial" nature of the project.

Questions and feedback welcome.
Tim

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Tim Schaub
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