Deegree Incubation Status

General

Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?

Yes, approved on May 2nd, 2008

Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?

Yes, Jody Garnett

Infrastructure Transition

Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?

Not exactly the URL above, but http://deegree.osgeo.org/deegree. Some technical advice is needed here. Do we need a rewrite or redirect?

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

No. A bug tracker is already in use and can be accessed at http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?atid=212&group_id=27&func=browse

Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?

No. Mailing lists are already set up on sourceforge:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/deegree-announce/ https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/deegree-users/ https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/deegree-devel/

Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?

No. A SVN is already available at http://wald.intevation.org/projects/deegree/

Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?

No. Downloads are available from http://www.deegree.org/ -> Download

Community Functioning

Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?

Support mechanism are available in the form of a user mailing list and a wiki (https://wiki.deegree.org/). The users mailing list (see above) is functioning well for some years already.

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

Yes. Available are packaged jars, source packages and also demo applications (easy to install jar-Archives).

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

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

Yes, there is a PSC. The PSC decides about the major directions of the deegree project, the dates and content of major releases and who the project developers are.

The PSC consists to date of:

Jens Fitzke (lat/lon) Prof. Dr. Klaus Greve (Bonn University) Dr. Markus Lupp (lat/lon) Dr. Andreas Poth (lat/lon) Herman Assink (IDgis).

The PSC can be contacted via psc -- @ -- deegree.org.

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

yes/no - provide pointers to various related documents.

A developer guide is available and there is a first stub describing the procedures we use so far is at: https://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/Procedures We see the OSGeo incubation process as a chance to develop a more formal organisation of the project.

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

Indicate number and some organizations involved.

There are 19 active developers from multiple organisations. They are listed at http://wald.intevation.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=27

Foundation Membership

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

A deegree project flyer based on the OSGeo project template is expected to be available by 2009-06-25. This first version will be German language only and be taken to the AGIT trade fair early July. deegree staff will be present at the OSGeo booth.

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

The OSGeo logo was added to http://deegree.org which also explicitly mentions deegree's status as an OSGeo project in incubation.

Code Copyright Review

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

Yes, the current version is available in the deegree Wiki.

Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?

This is still work in progress. Some issues could be resolved already, others are still TBD. Detailed information is included in the above mentioned report.

Are Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?

A draft document has been set up be the PSC. This needs final review and then has to be accepted by all commiters.