[pycsw-devel] OSGeo Incubation status

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Angelos:

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 01/21/2015 04:01 AM, Tom Kralidis wrote:
>>
>> Hi Angelos: thanks for the info/summary.
>>
>> I've updated/merged the project graduation checklist at
>> https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/Project-Graduation-Checklist
>> for review and comment per version 2.0 of the OSGeo graduation
>> checklist.
>
> Thanks for the update, looks good.
>
>> The following needs clarification (marked by TODO in the
>> wiki page):
>>
>> [ ] All code contributors have agreed to abide by the project's
>> license policy, and this agreement has been documented and archived.
>>
>> Q: what does this mean?  How do we do this?
>
> In OSGeoLive we do this by asking all the commiters to send an e-mail to the
> devel mailing list stating that they agree to abide by the project's license
> policy, so this gets archived in the mailing list history.
>
> See here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Subversion
>
> example:
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2014-December/009708.html
>
> I guess we should do the same (and perhaps ask all committers to send a
> similar e-mail here)
>

Thanks for the info.  The email approach is a great idea and lower
barrier IMHO.  Questions:

- what constitutes a contributor?  Official committers
(https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/blob/master/COMMITTERS.txt)?
Anyone who has ever contributed, including via GitHub pull requests?
(https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/graphs/contributors)?  If anyone,
would we need them to additionally add their name/year in the source
code headers they have touched?  Only core committers have done this
thus far

- we have a section on contributing in
https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#contributions-and-licensing
.  We should update this section once we iron out how things will work
(process and email template).

- what would our email template look like?  Proposed template for
review/comment:

Subject: pycsw project licensing agreement

Hi all, I'd like to contribute pycsw to TBD1. My TBD2 userid is: YYYY.
I confirm that my contributions to TBD1 will be compatible with the
TBD1 license guidelines at the time of contribution.

TBD1: is this OSGeo?  Something else?

TBD2: OSGeo userid?  GitHub userid?

>>
>> Aside: is providing copyright to OSGeo a requirement or can we keep as
>> is?  Is this an exclusive copyright to OSGeo, or in addition to those
>> who have copyright already?
>
> No, it is not a requirement. We can keep as is.
>
>>
>> Unless we are required clarify the above issues beforehand, I'm +1
>> with the updated checklist being good to go for Jeff to discuss
>> with/report to IncCom.
>>
>> ..Tom
>
>
> +1
> Angelos
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After the completion of our Code Provenance Review [1], I think it is
>>> time
>>> to evaluate our OSGeo Incubation status.
>>> Our wiki page for incubation process is [2].
>>>
>>> According to OSGeo web site, the full incubation process is described
>>> here
>>> [3]. In this process, pycsw has completed tasks 1, 2, 3 and 4. We are
>>> currently placed between points 5 and 6:
>>>
>>> "5. The Incubation Mentor reports incubation progress to the IncCom
>>> periodically using the Project Graduation Checklist [4].
>>>   6. Incubation Projects remain in incubation until the Incubation Mentor
>>> and
>>> the IncCom agree the project is ready for full status."
>>>
>>> Based on the above text, I think we need to merge documents [5] and [6]
>>> in
>>> favor of [6]. It is clearly stated that only the Project Graduation
>>> Checklist should be used to report our status to the Incubation
>>> Committee.
>>>
>>> Also, we need to update our graduation checklist [6] to make sure that it
>>> is
>>> up to date with upstream (OSGeo has updated this checklist [4] some
>>> months
>>> ago, bringing it to version 2.0).
>>> Then we need our mentor (Jeff) to discuss with the Incubation Committee
>>> about this.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/pycsw-Provenance-Review
>>> [2] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-Incubation
>>> [3]I
>>> [4]
>>> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
>>> [5] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/Project-Status
>>> [6] https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/Project-Graduation-Checklist
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Angelos Tzotsos
>>> Remote Sensing Laboratory
>>> National Technical University of Athens
>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos
> Remote Sensing Laboratory
> National Technical University of Athens
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>