[PROJ] Incubate PROJ as an OSGeo Project?

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 27 février 2019 10:37:18 CET Howard Butler wrote:
> All,
> 
> PROJ is now rather healthy from a project management and release
> perspective, but it has been somewhat on its own in terms of project
> support. If we were to incubate into OSGeo, we as a project might enjoy
> some other benefits that we do not have access to:
> 
> * Foundation financial sponsorship for project needs (continuous
> integration, sprint travel, etc) * Codification of project management
> principles (outlined in RFC 1 [1], which are OSGeo-compatible already) *
> Access to shared infrastructure (we use OSGeo for download support and
> mailing list, with GitHub, AppVeyor, and Travis for everything else)
> 
> Michael Smith, Treasurer of OSGeo, has offered to mentor the PROJ project
> through OSGeo incubation. PROJ is already a pseudo-project under the OSGeo
> MetaCRS effort, and this activity would break that linkage and promote PROJ
> to a full OSGeo project.
> 
> At this point, I think incubation into OSGeo is a fairly innocuous and
> reasonable thing for the PROJ project to undertake, but I would like to
> gauge the community's enthusiasm for such a thing. I don't see any
> significant downsides to doing so. Do you?

I'd be supportive of such a move. PROJ is a foundation of a number of other C/
C++ OSGeo projects (GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS, MapServer, GRASS, etc.). It is open 
source, geospatial, operates in a collaborative way, has a diverse community, 
etc., so a good fit for graduating as a OSGeo project.

Even

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