IncCom Meeting20

Time

• Proposed date: Sep 24 2012
  • Australia 11pm India 6:30pm Europe 3pm America 9am

• Location: IRC channel #osgeo (alternative Web client).

Agenda

1) Approve minutes from IncCom Meeting19

Actions from this meeting:

• PostGIS news announcement or blog post

• tackat to join mailing list to go over mentor responsibilities

• jive and tackat look towards joint blog post introducing marble and asking for volunteer mentor

2) Review TRAC / Email list requests

Review pending incubation applications: Pending Applications in Trac

• We have 10 applications

• WITHDRAWN: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/362 Geotoolkit Application for Incubation to OSGeo

• NEW: OGC Team Engine application (added to agenda)

3) ZOO-Project Status (FrankW mentor)

• Action update: ZOO-Project up update website with OSGeo incubation logo / news announcement. ZOO-Project communication is held up waiting on mailing list, waiting for FrankW to return

4) rasdaman Statsus (Bruce Bannerman mentor Jody backup)

5) Opticks Status (Mark Lucas mentor)

• Action Update: Opticks news announcement and update website with OSGeo incubation logo

6) MetaCRS Status (Daniel Morissette mentor)

7) gvSig Status (jsanz)

8) GeoServer Status (pspencer)

9) geomoose Status (Jody Garnett mentor)

• Action Update: jive to review geomoose materials prior to recomendation

• recommended for graduation

• project team is done revising project procedures

• [GeoMoose Incubation Status]

10) OGC TEAM Engine Application

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1016 OGC TEAM Engine, jdeolive to mentor

11) Incubation Phases - break incubation into phases to allow projects to start in without a mentor, will require collaboration with SAC and Marketting committees.

Proposal: Incubation Phases

Minutes

Full log:

http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-09-24.log

Attending:

- jive, Frank Warmerdam, Gerald Fenoy, Arnulf, Jorge Sanz, Daniel Morissette, tom kralidis, Angelos Tzotsos, Jeff McKenna

Actions:

• Arnulf to Mentor Marble, we will need to make a motion on the email list.
• jive: to contact OSM project and see if it is still ticking
• OGC Team Engine motioned with Justin Deoliveira as mentor
• jive: ask GeoMoose for clarification on contribution, and results of code/doc/data review
• jmckenna: fix ZOO-Project link on osgeo.org (done)
• jive: take "Incubation Phases" proposal back to email for discussion
• kalxas: filling in pycsw questionnaire

1) Approve minutes from IncCom Meeting19

- Request for use of real names - Request to list decisions in meeting

Review actions:

• (incomplete) PostGIS news announcement or blog post
• (no longer required) jive and tackat look towards joint blog post introducing marble and asking for volunteer mentor

Frank motioned to accept, Arnulf seconded.

2) Review TRAC / Email list requests

From email:

• Withdrawn Geotoolkit Application for Incubation to OSGeo

Review pending incubation applications:

• Marble Virtual Globe <-- seven has volunteered
• STARSpan <-- this one appears stuck
• PyWPS Incubation Process
• Geo-meteo
• Orfeo Toolbox (OTB)
• OSM Distributed Tile Update System Application
• MapProxy
• (withdrawn) GeoTookit
• (new) OGC Team Engine

3) ZOO-Project Status (FrankW mentor)

• (done) mailing list is migrated
• (not done) incubation logo on zoo-project.org
• (not done) news anouncement
• (not done) osgeo webpage link still wrong

4) rasdaman Statsus (Bruce Bannerman mentor Jody backup)

• no progress

5) Opticks Status (Mark Lucas mentor)

• in release candidate mode so assume busy
• (not done) news announcement on entering OSGeo Incubation
• (not done) update website with "project in incubation" logo

6) MetaCRS Status (Daniel Morissette mentor)

- no progress

7) gvSig Status (jsanz)

• no progress
• "you are always on my mind"
• jsanz will start doing the work himself, and expects questions

8) GeoServer Status (pspencer)

• Geoserver 2.2 is released, so code review can re-start
• checklist completed, Andrea Amie has reviewed

9) GeoMoose Status (Jody Garnett mentor)

• (done) Jody has reviewed GeoMoose materials
• (done) recommended for graduation
• project team is done revising project procedures
• [GeoMoose Incubation Status], [GeoMoose_Provenance_Review], [GeoMoose_Incubation_Checklist]

Feedback:

• Cameron (email): lack of committer guidelines
• Frank: "Normally for projects without a legal contribution agreement it is good to make clear guidelines on provenance responsibilities and to have each committer agree to it."
• Jody: docs were not distributed under a license
• Jody: could not locate summary of the code / docs / data review on email

10) OGC TEAM Engine Application

• OGC TEAM Engine
• Justin Deoliveira volunteered to mentor
• Some concerns about team size, took a moment to match names to organisations
• Could not establish current "governance model / decision process" (something to work on in incubation)

Frank motions to accept OGC Team project for incubation with Justin DeOlivera as mentor, 11) Incubation Phases - break incubation into phases to allow projects to start in without a mentor, will require collaboration with SAC and Marketting committees. Proposal: Incubation Phases

Frank motions that the applicaiton be accepted with, Justin as mentor, Daniel Morissette seconds. Motion carried.

11) Incubation Phases

• Send back to email for discussion.
• Need a better name for applications that are in order, but as of yet lack a mentor. Several names were proposed "Incubation: Applied", "Incubation: Pending".

Benefits: - prevent projects waiting in limbo - better to give a clear "no" and let projects free to look into other options.

Concerns: - significantly increase the importance of reviewing the initial questionare. - increasing the burden on incubation committee, SAC and Marketing. - some projects may not be interesting enough to ever capture a mentor

12) pycsw update

Action: filling in questionnaire, will be ready for next meeting. Action: looking for mentor