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

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.

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?

If not, why?

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)?

indicate the available user support mechanisms, and whether they seem to be functioning well (are getting used and get answers).

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

yes/no (and any caveats)

Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?

yes/no, indicate members and whether it has effective control.

Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.

yes/no - provide pointers to various related documents.

How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?

Indicate number and some organizations involved.

Foundation Membership

Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?

If not, indicate when this will occur.

Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?

If not, indicate what is planned. (note: currently an OSGeo web style has not bee established)

Code Copyright Review

Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?

yes/no - point to review document.

Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?

indicate outstanding issues.