Infrastructure Working Group

This is a proposal for a Working Group to assess OSGeo's software infrastructure needs and provisions.

Focus

 * Assess the OSGeo community's needs for code management and collaboration tools, particularly collecting requirements and feedback from the Incubation Committee and Website Committee
 * Offer recommendations on future development directions to the Board

Participants

 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Jo Walsh
 * Schuyler Erle
 * Please add yourself

Meetings and discussions

 * ''When there's enough to chat about, suggest a chat session time (perhaps one that works well with the existing Website Committee timings?
 * If necessary, start a mailing list

Documents

 * Project Infrastructure Migration is a very comprehensive overview of what tools the individual software projects are using now, both to manage their codebase and their communications.


 * WebCom OSGeo Site Focus is a collection of site visitor use cases; when people come to the public front, what do they expect and need to find from OSGeo?

Non-software/operations Committee use case
The Geodata committee is the first attempt at moving forward on a non-software project Committee that isn't concerned with OSGeo internal operations, so we are figuring out a lot as we go along.


 * Wiki works well for sketching out rough requirements - e.g. Geodata Repository
 * Wiki doesn't work well as a shared editing environment for pages which are destined to go onto the "Official" site - e.g. Geodata Homepage Draft
 * We need some way to get multiple authors working on pages for the "official" site, without having to check them back into a live repository on subversion, or branch the pages and then re-merge them...