Project Incubation

9/2006: orphaned page - to be deleted?

(NOTE: The following is all for discussion purposes, and not firmly established yet)

Project Incubation Committee

 * IncCom Wiki
 * The official incubator web page is at: http://incubator.osgeo.org

Apache Incubation Process
The Apache incubation process is serving as a rough guide for the OSGeo incubation process. Details can be found at:

Apache Incubator

Apache Incubation Policy

A Apache vs. OSGeo Incubation Review discusses one view of how OSGeo incubation might be similar, and different from Apache incubation.

Incubation Completion Criteria

 * Has the code been adequately vetted to assure it is all properly licensed? (Some notes at IP_Issues_Discussion_Document)
 * Have all code committers signed appropriate Contributor Agreements. (Rich working on draft agreement)
 * Does the project have a governance policy and a project management committee established that ensures decisions can be made, documented and adhered to?
 * Is the developer community working in a reasonably healthy way? Open to input, new members and reaching consensus on decisions?

Issues

 * How to deal with long term projects such as GRASS (started 1982) in terms of a Contributor Agreement? Is the Debian-Clearance and GPL clearance sufficient?