[postgis-devel] Re: PostGIS infrastructure

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:51:34PM -0700, Jeff Lounsbury wrote:
> 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.

Correct.

> 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.

Website does not *have* to change to complete incubation -- so long as
the website is not directly at odds with the community desires, at least
:) (OpenLayers still self-hosts our infrastructure 1 year after
completing incubation.)

> 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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