[postgis-devel] Re: PostGIS infrastructure

[Jeff Lounsbury]

Official Refractions Response below... :-)

We are pretty much OK with whatever the community wants in terms of PSC, 
and project infrastructure etc. There are basically only two things that 
we would not agree to do which are:

1) Copyright. I'm not sure what exactly going into incubation means with 
regards to copyright. One thing in particular that we would not do is 
assign copyright to someone else to allow the licenses to change etc. I 
haven't seen anything about this so I will assume that is not necessary 
to go into OSGeo incubation.

2) Website. We do feel our postgis website is a valuable asset to our 
consulting marketing/advertising so we cannot agree to just shut that 
down and point everyone at a generic OSGeo site. Maybe we can incubate 
the other things first: svn, bug tracker, etc then see if anything 
changes, but for now we'd rather leave the site as is.

Cheers,
-Jeff



Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
>> I ran the idea past osgeo, and they'll have us, though they would
>> prefer if we signalled an intent to enter incubation as an osgeo
>> project at the same time. Becoming an osgeo project is basically in
>> line with our thoughts about having some actual procedures for project
>> management, and adds an extra task around reviewing our intellectual
>> property and copyright situation (which would be healthy (since we
>> have some license conflicts in our code base)).
>>
>> See the principles of incubation for an idea of what we'd be signing
>> up for: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/principles.html
>>
>> If we go that way, we can move as much or as little as we want. SVN is
>> on the table now. To that I'd add the bug tracker. I even volunteer to
>> figure out how to extract our data from Goog to import into trac.
>> Having a real trac/svn instance would be awsome. Moving mailing lists
>> is also possible if you want to do that too (and should be pretty
>> trivial, since osgeo uses mailman too).
>>
>> P.
> 
> Okay, since we don't have an official PSC, who makes the decision as to 
> whether we should incubate with OSGeo? Should we just have an on-list 
> vote on -devel? I guess we need some kind of official response from 
> Refractions as to whether they are happy with this too - Kevin?
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
> 

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