GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.


 * http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

Open
1. Open and public manner

License:


 * http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:


 * http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
 * http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
 * http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

Public decision making process:


 * RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines
 * RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)
 * RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:


 * http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
 * http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:


 * https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst
 * http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status

Copyright and License
1. license


 * http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
 * https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license


 * no explicit documentation license discussion on using same license for everything

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed


 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders


 * http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
 * https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement


 * no code contribution agreement used (authors retain copyright?)
 * http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html

Processes
1. code under configuration management


 * https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker


 * http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:


 * http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::
 * http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
 * see email lists above

Documentation
1. user documentation:


 * |Getting Started
 * GeoMoose Documentation

2. developers documentation:


 * Developers Documentation
 * http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure


 * How to Release

Board
1. Project Officer: TBD

Marketing
1. Marketting details


 * http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
 * http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available


 * http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
 * http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

Projects
Integration of:


 * MapServer
 * OpenLayers
 * Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release of OpenLayers.

SAC
1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:


 * issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
 * mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
 * subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
 * downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/