[pgrouting-users] Motion for Project Steering Commitee and call
for participation
Stephen Woodbridge
woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Mon Mar 8 11:03:13 EST 2010
Hi all,
I have been a member of the Mapserver PSC for 5-6 years I think. I can
assure everyone that the process is NOT very intrusive. It really helps
to keep development efforts public and to keep it rolling forward. If
you have more than one or two developers having some process is
important. RFCs are typically one page documents that define what you
plan to develop and discusses and key technical impact of that effort.
This is very help up front to let people see the plan and comment on it
before a lot of work is done that might be problematic for some other
part of the code that you were not familiar with. It also helps the
documentation effort because the documentarians with have a guiding
document to start working from. I will also note that OpenLayers, GDAL,
GEOS and the PostGIS projects all follow a similar PSC process so I
think that is good recommendation in and of itself.
I think that what has made this process successful for all of these
projects is that it has been flexible with the process and the the teams
are willing to collaborate and compromise when needed. Little tasks need
little or no process beyond a quick discussion over IRC or the list.
Larger tasks that are more invasive need more discussion. All in all it
works well, but it took some time initially for everyone to get used to it.
As Daniel said, this is a proposal, not a dictate. We are looking for
collaboration on the PSC and that includes how it is run. Our goal is to
build a community and eventually more this into a OSGeo project status.
To start this process, we need to hear your concerns and your alternate
proposals on the PSC process. I would hope anyone that is would be
interested in working on the project would engage us with their thoughts
on the proposed process.
Best regards,
-Steve
Daniel Kastl wrote:
> Hi Miyawaki-san,
>
> I'm glad to hear that you want to join. I already thought Orkney went
> offline ;-) .... but I know it's March, and March is really busy, isn't it?
>
> The Wiki page about PSC I wrote this weekend was just a proposal and I
> copied it more or less 97% from Mapserver. Because my English
> vaocabulary is not very good in that field of work.
>
> For Venka it looked a bit scary, but I don't think it's as hard work to
> be a PSC member of pgRouting as it seems to be. If anyone wants to make
> some changes there, let me know. I will probably take out the IRC part.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> 2010/3/8 Ema Miyawaki <emma at orkney.co.jp <mailto:emma at orkney.co.jp>>
>
> Daniel-san
>
> Thank you for inviting me to PSC.
>
> I want to join pgRouting PSC and try rewrite the code base of core
> modules, improve performatnce, stability, reliability and more.
>
> Best regards
>
> Daniel Kastl さんは書きました:
>
> Hi pgRouting list members,
>
> For some time already there hasn't been much activity in source
> code commits and new releases. The last release has been quite
> long time ago.
>
> We (Anton Patrushev and Daniel Kastl) want to boost project
> activity and make it easier for others to join and influence
> pgRouting development.
> Looking at successful OSGeo projects we think that it should
> become easier to participate for everyone, and decisions should
> be made more transparent.
>
> To get started Anton and I are in favor of establishing a PSC
> (Project Steering Committee) for pgRouting.
> A good description of the role of a PSC can be found in the
> GRASS project wiki: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/RFC1
>
> We believe that having a PSC would be the initial step for
> pgRouting to become more "open", to handle project management
> properly, to improve code quality, to hopefully extend
> functionality and of course to attract more developers and users.
>
> To start an initial Project Steering Committee we're now looking
> for candidates.
> Since the number of people who have been involved so far is
> rather small, we welcome anyone who has strong interest and/or
> motivation to participate.
>
> Especially I would like to to invite the following people to
> participate in the pgRouting PSC:
> - Frederic Junod (Camptocamp)
> - Ema Miyawaki (Orkney)
> - Stephen Woodbridge (Imaptools)
> - Kai Behncke (FOSSGIS e.V)
> - Venkatesh Raghavan (Osaka City University)
>
> If any other individuals/companies are interested, please raise
> your voice now!
>
> Looking forward to hear some feedback,
>
> Daniel
>
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