[OpenLayers-Dev] proposal for GeoExt governance

[Eric Lemoine]

Hi Erik,

Thanks for your response. I don't have an answer to your question, and
I'll defer to Tim for that, but I just wanted to say that I'd
volunteer for the CLA check work.

Eric

2009/3/18, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com>:
> So from this mail and reading the two links... it sounds like the impact for
> OL PSC
> would be that we must make sure that:
>
> 1) GeoExt has a OSGeo-friendly license (and doesn't change it)
> 2) All contributors to GeoExt project have signed CLA
> 3) GeoExt remains Geo-related.
>
> Seems like (1) and (3) are essentially a one-time deal. (2), however,
> would imply someone from OL PSC monitoring all GeoExt commits
> and double-checking to see that CLAs are on file for the committer
> or in the event that the committer is merely acting as a reviewer,
> then for the originator of the patch.
>
> None of this seems particularly difficult or time consuming.
>
> My immediate question, though, is "can a member of the OL PSC
> act in any of these roles if they are also a member of the GeoExt
> PSC (or general community)?"
>
> If the answer is "yes", and either Tim or Eric (who I know are both
> involved in GeoExt) would like to take on the responsibilities, then
> I don't see any reason for the OL PSC *not* to approve this.
>
> If the answer is "no", then a suitable chaperone among the uninvolved
> on the OL PSC will have to step up.
>
> Are there any side effects to this that are not being listed here? I mean,
> whether the answer to my above question is "yes" or "no", it doesn't seem
> like OL PSC really has anything to *lose* either way.... maybe I'm
> missing something?
>
> Erik
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 23:54, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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