FDO Incubation Status

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General

Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
Yes, FDO is a board approved project.
Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
Yes, Daniel Morissette is assigned as mentor.

Infrastructure Transition

Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.

Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
Yes. http://fdo.osgeo.org/ has been established and populated with project content
Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
Yes. Refer to http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo
Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
Yes. All FDO mailing lists are now listed at http://lists.osgeo.org. They include 'fdo-announce', 'fdo-internals', 'fdo-users', 'fdo-trac' and 'fdo-commits'
Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
Yes. Refer to http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/browser
Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
Yes. Refer to http://download.osgeo.org/fdo

Community Functioning

Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
Yes. There is a well established developer community and user community.
The mailing lists are in place and are functioning well. Issues raised on the internals and users mailing lists are being addressed in a timely manner. The available FDO mailing lists can be found at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo. They include 'fdo-announce', 'fdo-internals', 'fdo-users', 'fdo-trac' and 'fdo-commits'.
User support is also available using trac at http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo and though irc at irc://freenode/fdo
Project stats is available on ohloh.net: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4662
Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
Binary, Source code and Documentation downloads are available for multiple FDO releases. Refer to http://fdo.osgeo.org/content/downloads
Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
Yes. Refer to http://fdo.osgeo.org/psc.html
Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
Yes. Refer to http://fdo.osgeo.org/psc.html
How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
12 developers from Autodesk and at least 3 external developers.

Foundation Membership

Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
Yes
Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
Yes - The FDO site (http://fdo.osgeo.org) content inherits and uses the styles defined by the osgeo site.

Code Copyright Review

Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?
Yes it can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FDO_Provenance_Review
Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
Yes
Are Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?
Yes.
Refer to http://fdo.osgeo.org/files/Individual%20Contributor%20Agreement%20-%20FDO.pdf
Refer to http://fdo.osgeo.org/files/Corporate%20Contributor%20Agreement%20-%20FDO.pdf