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GvSIG incubator application request

2013-09-19T11:35:11Z

Wiki-Jjdelcerro:

This is the application request sent to the incubator applications mailing list on 7th June 2007 (message at [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2007-June/000682.html incubator] mailing list)

;1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.
:gvSIG Association: info@gvsig.com

;2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).

;3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers
: Joaquín del Cerro: jjdelcerro@gvsig.com gvSIG Association
: César Ordiñana: cordinyana@gvsig.com gvSIG Association/DiSiD

;4. Please describe your Project.
:gvSIG is a project mainly sponsored by the gvSIG Association (www.gvsig.com). It is aimed at developing a comprehensive desktop GIS solution that easily integrates services provided by Spatial Data Infrastructures as well as regular sources of geospatial data. More information can be found at the project web site (www.gvsig.org).
: gvSIG is now widely used in many administrations, public and private organizations around the world.

;5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
: * The gvSIG project would like to extend its community of international developers and users, providing a more open platform for collaboration. The adoption by OSGeo is expected to help us in doing that transition.
: * The gvSIG project would like to strengthen its ties to other FOSS GIS projects.
: * The gvSIG project aims at maintaining a high degree of quality and compliance with open standards and practices supported by international organizations, as well as participating in the improvement of those standards and practices.

;6. Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):
: A multiplatform, Java-based standalone desktop application.

;7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.
: gvSIG has working relationships with many FOSS projects. In the geospatial area:
: * i3GEO, MapServer, GeoServer, deegree, GeoNetwork, OpenLayers, Leaflet. Since gvSIG integrates services provided by these tools, direct contact has been established with developers and representatives of these projects, which in many cases have resulted in fixes and improvements on both sides.
: * GeoTools, PostGIS. Results of these projects are used within gvSIG and direct contact has been established with project developers and representatives to define common interests.

;8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.
: gvSIG has been adding support for commercial geospatial web services and databases, adding drivers for ArcIMS (ESRI) Map and Feature services, and support for Oracle Spatial databases and ArcSDE (ESRI). However, no direct contact or agreement exists with those companies.

;9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?
: gvSIG is released under GNU Public License (GPL 3).

;10. Is there already a beta or official release?
: Yes, gvSIG was first released on October 2004 and it is currently in version 2.0.

;11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?
: It is government sponsored, originally within an open source migration programme. It currently has strong commercial and educational participation.

;12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?
: gvSIG wholeheartedly supports open standards, specifically:
: * XML and related standards from W3C, in document persistence and in all accesses to remote services.
: * OGC standards, as web service client:
: ** WMS (1.1.0 - 1.3.0)
: ** WFS (1.0.0) + GML import/export (2.1.2) at 1.0
: ** WCS (1.0.0)
: ** Catalogue search (OGC CSW 2.0, IDEC)
: ** Gazetteer search (WFS 1.0.0, WFS-G 0.9, ADL)
: * GML 2.X, as data import and export

;13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?
: gvSIG is free of patents and trademarks, and the copyright is controlled by the project owners.

;14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?
: Core coding: 6
: Documentation/testing: 10
: Admin, support, training: 12
: Other (collaborators, consultants) 50

;15. How many people have commit access to the source code repository?
: Currently, most developers, about 20. Access is restricted during stabilization phases.

;16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?
:We estimate based on download numbers and list activity about 40,000 active users overall.

;17. What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academicknow research, etc. )?
: Mostly from government organizations and academic institutions (for education and research). Several companies are already providing customized versions and extensions used in different professional contexts.

;18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?
: We would evaluate the options to use the OSGeo infrastructure, however, our goals in joining OSGeo (see question 5) do not depend on the actual hosting infrastructure.

;19. Does the project include an automated build and test?
: It does include automatic build procedures and some automated tests.

;20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)
: Java, with some JNI bridges to support C-based libraries like GDAL. Scripting: Python, Javascript and Groovy

;21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?
: English and Spanish, but a good number of them are proficient in Portuguese, French, Italian,..

;22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?
: Estimated size: Full binaries, about 400 Mb; Sources, including JNI, about 400 Mb.
The number of downloads since release of version 2.0 is about 100,000.

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GvSIG Provenance Review

2013-09-19T10:33:44Z

Wiki-Jjdelcerro:

The information on provenance review of gvSIG code can be found on the official website of gvSIG, in
http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/devel/gvsig-devel-guide/2-1-0/provenance-review

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GvSIG Incubation Status

2013-09-19T10:27:50Z

Wiki-Jjdelcerro:

== General ==

You can see the [[GvSIG incubator application request]] for more details from the project

; Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
: Approved at board meeting on September 7th 2007.

; Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
: [[User:Ticheler|Jeroen Ticheler]] has been assigned as incubation mentor.
: [[User:mmadrid|Manuel Madrid]] has been assigned by the gvSIG project as formal contact with the project.

There's a [https://devel.gvsig.org/redmine/issues/1719 task ] for the icubation process at the gvSIG infrastructure.

== Infrastructure Transition ==

''Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.''

gvSIG has a huge infrastructure with several trackers, SVN repositories and so on. gvSIG Technical Steering Committe considers at this moment that gvSIG infrastructure should be managed with project servers set up at https://devel.gvsig.org/redmine and http://www.gvsig.org.

; Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
: Yes, http://gvsig.osgeo.org redirects to [http://www.gvsig.org gvSIG official webpage]
: There is an [http://www.osgeo.org/gvsig info sheet] at OSGeo web page

; Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
: No, there is an https://devel.gvsig.org/redmine/projects/gvsig-desktop project with main [https://devel.gvsig.org/redmine/projects/gvsig-desktop/issues trackers] for bugs, feature requests, binary build announces, etc.

; Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
: No, the project has its own [https://gvsig.org/web/community/mailing-lists/directory-en/ mailing list server]. Additionally, gvSIG mailing lists are archived at [http://www.nabble.com/gvSIG-f29441.html nabble] under OSGeo projects (also on [http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=gvsig gmane] and [http://www.mail-archive.com/find.php?domains=www.mail-archive.com&q=gvsig&sa=Search mail-archive.com]).

; Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
: No, the project is using mainly the [https://devel.gvsig.org/svn/gvsig-desktop gvSIG Desktop SCM].

; Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
: Yes, the gvSIG download server is linked through the OSGeo front page
: The gvSIG download server is accessible through http at http://downloads.gvsig.org/download/

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== Community Functioning ==

; Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
: gvSIG has a [https://gvsig.org/web/community/mailing-lists/directory-en/ mailing lists] page that refers to several public lists for users, announcements and developers (in English and Spanish) but also for build announcements and for the Italian an Brazilian communities. All those lists are also archived at Nabble under the OSGeo project forum and in Gmane and mail-archive.com.

; Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
: At [http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official downloads area] of gvSIG website you'll find any binary and source code released from 0.3 version up to current release. The [https://gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/devel/view?set_language=en internal builds] are also published on the community portal. Every build has it's corresponding tag a the [https://devel.gvsig.org/svn/gvsig-desktop/tags/ svn server].task for

; Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
: Yes, during spring of 2008 a [[gvSIG Technical Steering Committee]] has been formed. It's a group of relevant people from the project and there's an executive sub group who is responsible of the final decisions. Briefly, the Technical Comittee is based on ''workgroups'', working on enhancement or change proposals that the executive committee has to approve.

; Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
: TSC is described at [[gvSIG Technical Steering Committee|this wiki]] and at [http://www.gvsig.org/web/organization/about-us/committees/ gvSIG portal].
: There is also documentation about the [http://www.gvsig.org/web/organization/about-us/regulations/ TSC regulation], [http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/devel/gvsig-devel-guide/2.0.0/anexos/contribuciones-y-parches-al-codigo-de-gvsig/contributions-and-patches-to-the-gvsig-code how to contribute] and what [http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/devel/gvsig-devel-guide/2.0.0/anexos/proyectos-oficiales-en-gvsig/gvsig-official-projects gvSIG official projects] are.
: The TSC has a [https://lists.forge.osor.eu/listinfo/gvsig-desktop-tsc-pub public mailing list] where the group discuss. The agendas and minutes of all meetings and proposals are also available and reported on this list and publicly available.

; How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
: Can see the developers in the [http://www.ohloh.net/p/gvsig-desktop-2/contributors gvSIG Desktop ohloh web].

== Foundation Membership ==

; Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
: Yes, the current [http://www.gvsig.org main web site] reflects the OSGeo incubation, it has been reported on the mailing lists and several reports and OSGeo appears as ''Collaborator organization'' for the [[3rd gvSIG Conference]], [[4th gvSIG Conference]], [[5th gvSIG Conference]] and [[6th gvSIG Conference]].

; Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
: No, we are placing the OSGeo logo and doing as much promotion as we can of OSGeo at gvSIG events and gvSIG team is also participating at OSGeo planet but we are not willing to re-style our website with OSGeo guidelines (in the gvSIG portal has just the Plone default skin).

== Code Copyright Review ==

; Has a [[Code Provenance Review]] document been prepared for the project?
: Yes, there is in [[GvSIG Provenance Review]]

; Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
: A [https://devel.gvsig.org/redmine/issues/1719 task for incubation] has been created.

; Are [[Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines]] covering legal issues in place?
: We are stablishing a [http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/devel/gvsig-devel-guide/2.0.0/anexos/contribuciones-y-parches-al-codigo-de-gvsig/what-is-the-gvsig-cla CLA protocol]. At this time most of the code is owned directly by the project and we will request to sign the CLA to past and new code contributors.

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