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
 * Plan for the software and data repository facilities to be hosted at telascience
 * Plan for the administration of telascience facilities
 * Offer recommendations on future development directions to the Board

Participants

 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Jo Walsh
 * Schuyler Erle
 * Norman Vine
 * Howard Butler
 * Arnulf Christl
 * 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?


 * Geodata Repository is an overview of what metadata / archiving / redistribution facilities people have discussed wanting to offer through OSGeo


 * Software Stack is a collection of notes on what OSGeo software can be made available as a "demo stack" hosted on the telascience system.

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 and for planning stages
 * 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...

Auto Build / Smoke Test
Some of the software projects need a place for doing automated builds and smoke tests.

FrankW suggests this should be a service hosted on telascience OSGeo system(s)