IncCom Report22

Incubation Status report for Q2 2013.

= Incubation Committee =

TLDR: Waiting on the board for GeoMoose announcement, and listing project officers for GeoMoose and GeoServer. Rasdaman is getting close to completing incubation requirements, Optics and Zoo-Project have been quietly working away, while gvSig has a new mentor. Remaining incubation projects show no progress, with dropping TEAM Engine discussed. Landon has some ideas for promoting OSGeo Labs projects.

Activities:
 * All: GeoMoose graduation (motion passed)
 * Jody: Update projects list http://www.osgeo.org/incubator (done)
 * Jody: Incubation_Committee_Report_2012 (done)
 * jmckenna: fix ZOO-Project link on osgeo.org (done)
 * Arnulf to Mentor Marble, we will need to make a motion on the email list (done)
 * Jody: ask GeoMoose for clarification on contribution, and results of code/doc/data review (done)

Pending actions from IncCom Meeting21
 * Jody to contact OSM project and see if it is still ticking
 * Jody: take "Incubation Phases" proposal back to email for discussion
 * Jody: kalxas: filling in pycsw questionnaire

= Recent Graduates =

We are tracking recent graduates for a few months to ensure that the correct OSGeo Project logo is rolled out onto the project website, the community is informed, and the OSGeo board has a chance to make a news announcement and appoint a project officer.



GeoMoose

 * Recommendation accepted by board, with Bob Basque as GeoMoose Project Officer
 * Board Actions
 * no formal press release yet? Press Release Draft: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Press_Release_GeoMoose_Graduates_Incubation
 * Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
 * GeoMoose actions
 * Project announced graduation: http://www.geomoose.org/#geomoose-has-graduated-osgeo-project-incubation
 * Home Page updated with OSGeo Project log? No: http://www.geomoose.org

GeoServer

 * Recommendation accepted by board, with Andrea Andrea as GeoServer Project Officer
 * Board actions
 * Presse Release: http://www.osgeo.org/news/geoserver-graduation
 * Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
 * GeoServer Actions
 * Project Announcement: http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/03/18/geoserver-2-3-0-released-first-official-osgeo-release/
 * Home Page updated with OSGeo Project logo? Yes: http://geoserver.org/

= Incubation =

The following projects are following the OSGeo Incubation process.

Relationship with OSGeo:
 * Project are expected to display the OSGeo Project in Incubation logo on their website.
 * OSGeo lists these project on the main OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org website.

Relationship with Incubation Committee:
 * Each project has a mentor to help answer any questions (very helpful for sensitive subjects that cannot be discussed on an open mailing list).
 * Project are expected to link from the Incubation_Committee wiki to a Provenance Review (to confirm they are open source) and Incubation Checklist (to meet graduation requirements).
 * Incubation Committee mailing list is always questions and discussion



gvSIG

 * mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos (taking over from Jeroen Ticheler)
 * contact: Manuel Madrid

We have a new project rep, status last updated in 2011, no provenance review.

Marble

 * Mentor: Arnulf Christl
 * Website at http://www.osgeo.org/marble has been populated.

Status updated July 2013, provenance review started at: Marble Code Provenance Review

MetaCRS

 * mentor:
 * no progress to report

Status updated in 2009, no provenance review (unclear if that is applicable for the project?)

Opticks

 * mentor: Mark Lucas
 * no progress to report

Status updated Nov 2012, no provenance review.

pycsw

 * mentor: Jeff McKenna
 * Status updated July 2013
 * Team discussed Incubation plan in late June 2013
 * Team created a wiki area to hold future Incubation-status documents (https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-Incubation)
 * Team held first hands-on workshop in June (very successful, ~40 attendees). All documents contributed back to community.
 * Project momentum/activity is strong
 * Team plans to form a Project Steering Committee by the end of 2013
 * Question for IncCom: Can Jeff McKenna (current mentor) also be a pycsw PSC member?

rasdaman
The Rasdaman community seems to be past the technical hurdles of the code review and license checks, and is now working on open governance procedures.


 * mentor: Bruce Bannerman
 * Rasdaman Code Provenance Review http://rasdaman.eecs.jacobs-university.de/trac/rasdaman/wiki/OSGeoCodeProvenance (done?)
 * Rasdaman Incubation Checklist http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist. (80%)

(Bruce) My general observations on the project for the last period are:


 * Overall, the project appears to be in good shape, with 26 new user registrations this month alone.
 * Project activity has increased with a marked increase in email traffic on the developer and user lists.
 * Considerable activity is occuring related to documenting and fine tuning of software release processes, including tying these to processes relating to the use of git.
 * Work is underway to support git branching with a view towards maintained releases.
 * Work is under way to support regression testing for OGC compliance e.g. WCPS and WCS.
 * Work is underway to improve the testing framework.
 * Rasdaman's CRS name resolver has been deployed as OGC's official CRS name resolver.
 * I'm starting to see future planning activities being presented to the Rasdaman Community for comment. This is good to see.
 * We still don't have documented processes describing a range of factors, however I anticipate that these will come in time. Some examples are:
 * Project Governance and processes
 * Who is on the Project Steering Committee? How are PSC members (s)elected, replaced etc? What are the responsibilities of the PSC?
 * What Code review is expected for new contributions? Who does this review?
 * How are Commiters selected? What are their responsibilities? How is commit status reviewed?
 * The project has a reasonably well defined roadmap [2]. What I'm not clear on yet is e.g.:
 * How was this roadmap has been defined?
 * What community review process is used to arrive at the roadmap?
 * How were relative priorities determined?
 * How are new priorities balanced against existing priorities?

TEAM Engine

 * mentor: Justin Deolivera
 * no progress to report
 * logo not listed on project website (http://teamengine.sourceforge.net)
 * Some contact on email, no status or provenance review.

Incubation committee has discussed dropping this project due to lack of progress / lack of plan to progress.

ZOO-Project

 * mentor: Frank Warmerdam
 * ongoing provenance review.
 * ongoing status document.

Has started looking at the checklist, thus far only the release procedure seems missing.

= Labs =

Thanks to Landon Blake for his excellent leadership in reaching out to OSGeo Incubation Lab projects.


 * We have extended an invitation to OSGeo Labs projects to participate in the incubation list, as for many routine questions we can help without a dedicated mentor.
 * Landon has the idea of setting up resources for community building / project marketing / project governance

Geoinformatica

 * Website: http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/software.shtml
 * User Mailing List: no
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSgeo Wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_Geoinformatica
 * OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pgrouting_overview.html

pgRouting

 * Website: http://pgrouting.org
 * User Mailing List: yes
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSGeo wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_pgRouting
 * OSGeo Live:

PAGC

 * Website: http://www.pagcgeo.org
 * User Mailing List: no
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSGeo Wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_PAGC] (page empty)]
 * OSGeo Live:

MapProxy

 * Website: http://mapproxy.org/
 * User Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pagc-users
 * User Documentation: unknown / OSGeo-Live Quickstart
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSGeo Wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_MapProxy
 * OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/mapproxy_overview.html

The SurveyOS KML Toolkit

 * Website:
 * User Mailing List: no
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_The_SurveyOS_KML_Toolkit
 * OSGeo Live:

SlitherGrid

 * Website:
 * User Mailing List: no
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_SlitherGrid (page empty)
 * OSGeo Live:

Virtual Terrain Project

 * Website: http://vterrain.org/
 * User Mailing List: no
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_Virtual_Terrain_Project
 * OSGeo Live:

PyWPS

 * Website: http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
 * User Mailing List: no
 * User Documentation: unknown
 * Number of Users: no estimate

OSGeo Participation:


 * OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_PyWPS
 * OSGeo Live: