[osgeo4w-dev] OSGeo4W Governance

[Jeff McKenna]

...thinking further on this:

Maybe we have a process for acceptance of an OSGeo4W package:

- to be accepted into osgeo4w incubation:
   - user documentation must exist on the osgeo4w trac wiki
   - package must follow OSGeo4W technical standards (doesn't exist yet, 
but i'm thinking 'use gdal 1.7, python 2.6, based on osgeo4w libraries, etc)
   - maintainer must input name in our package maintainers table 
(doesn't exist yet)
   - maintainer must join osgeo4w-dev mailing list
- until acceptance, package cannot be made available in osgeo4w-setup.exe

Yes this means MOST of our packages are not acceptable and should be 
removed from our live version, until these requirements are met.

Thoughts?

-jeff



Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Since we're talking about packages...
> 
> We've been going through the wiki pages for our translation efforts, and 
> I'm sorry, but the OSGeo4W package information is very slim (or, 
> "pathetic" is a better word)[1].  Part of the packaging role, that we 
> define as a PSC, must include documenting your own package in the wiki 
> (user help, specific osgeo4w notes, version notes, anything) otherwise 
> having all these packages are useless to a new user.
> 
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackageListing
> 
> -jeff