OSSIM incubation status

Basics

 * Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
 * Yes


 * Has an OSGeo committee member been assigned as Mentor?
 * No

Infrastructure Transition
The OSSIM project is enthusiastic about being a fully participating project in the OSGeo foundation. Following standard open source software collaboration methods, we attempt to intelligently manage the available resource and apply it to areas of greatest need. Conversely, if something isn't broken, not much resource will be allocated to changing it. The project is hesitant to commit significant resource to embedding structure in Collabnet. We feel the foundation would be better served deploying open source solutions that are under the direct control of the foundation project members. We have no issues with using Collabnet as a skeletal infrastructure to tie these open resources together as long as best of breed solutions are free to be used.


 * Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects we presence?
 * OSSIM is currently hosted on a wiki at www.ossim.org. While potentially evaluating  a move to a Plone site the project has no motivation for moving to static web pages    on ossim.osgeo.org.  ossim.osgeo.org has been created and populated with a brief description and a link to the host site.


 * Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
 * Currently using bugzilla located at www.ossim.org, no compelling reason to change.


 * Is the OSGeo mailing list manager being used for the project?
 * No, currently using sourceforge for those services


 * Is the OSGeo SVN or CVS system being used for the project?
 * Currently using CVS at www.ossim.org, cautiously evaluating a move to svn, don't see a compelling reason to move that to collabnet.


 * Are binary and source downloads available from the OSGeo download area?
 * Currently hosted on sourceforge with additional large data sets available on telascience org. Links are available from the main page.  Collabnet currently doesn't have equivalent resource available.

Community Functioning

 * Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
 * existing and functioning well.


 * Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
 * existing and functioning well.


 * Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
 * Project Steering committee has just been formed. Currently consists of six developers with commit privileges.  Garrett Potts is the designated lead and has final say over software architecture implementation.  A module system has been created allowing segmented checkin control for other contributors.  Currently being used for the image registration module.


 * Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
 * No, plan to implement.


 * How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
 * Indicate number and some organizations involved. Garrett Potts, Mark Lucas, David Burken, Scott Bortman are the core OSSIM team external checkin privileges have been granted to Dr Frederic Claudel from the South African Center for remote sensing and James Hopper from SAIC Corporation.

Foundation Membership

 * Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
 * Yes, web site currently reflects OSGeo membership, documentation for OSSIM, brochures, presentations are also modified. This will be an ongoing process.


 * Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
 * Would plan on implementing this once the styling has been defined.

Code Copyright Review

 * Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?
 * No, initial review has commenced. OSSIM is a very large project, and the core team has developed the vast majority of the code base.  Do not anticipate any problems in this area.  Updated status - 20 Jun 06, restructuring the source code baseline in preparation for version 2.0. Code Provenance Review currently ongoing as part of that process.


 * Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
 * No issues are anticipated, need to complete the code review.