PostGIS Incubation Status

General

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

Yes, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-08-06#Minutes

Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?

Arnulf Christl has been assigned as mentor.

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 web presence?

If not why, and has the project page got a prominent link to the real home?

Ideally we would like postgis.osgeo.org to be an A record to the postgis.org existing domain.

This would provide DNS redundancy should a domain expire etc.

We are very content with our existing home page hosting assuming Refractions is happy to continue providing this.

http://postgis.org and http://postgis.refractions.net are already well established that we feel changing to another primary name will confuse people.

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

Yes http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis

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

No, but it is on our management todo (I think though can't find the ticket at the moment)

Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?

Yes http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis

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

No, Source downloads and windows binaries are available on http://www.postgis.org/download/ site.

The subversion tar balls and documentation are autogenerated by our build bot.

This is where people are familiar with getting them and we see no reason to change that. We would however request that

a link to the http://www.postgis.org/download/ page be added to the http://download.osgeo.org page. I think that would

achieve the intent of the letter. See Ticket closed, done.

Community Functioning

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

Yes, there is a web site describing the support mechanisms (http://www.postgis.org/support/) and mailing lists for code users, developers and code repository commits.

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

Yes via http://www.postgis.org/download/ (source tar balls, experimental builds for windows, and RTM builds for windows are available). Binaries of the latest RTM releases of PostGIS are also carried by various Linux distros and PostgreSQL Enterprisedb Stack Builder for Windows. Mac OS binaries are available via stack builder and independent packagers.

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

Yes. The member list available at http://postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#psc

Here are some example mails from the PostGIS-devel mailing list showing that the PSC is in control of development / QA and appoints committers.

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

An RFC-1 has been drafted to more formally define the PSC and it's functions.

Contributor guidelines are loosely described on the PostGIS developer wiki in the Patch submission section,

More complete Committer Guidelines have been drafted as RFC-5.

How many active developers are there?

12-20 at any one time (these include patch submitters) but generally 10-12 constant programmers who have commit access.

Are they from multiple organizations?

Yes, there are developers from several companies (Refractions, OpenGeo, Sirius, Paragon Corporation, CadCorp, Oslandia) plus several free lance developers

(~ 8-10 are from companies and 2-4 are free lance developers)

List of contributors

Foundation Membership

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

Yes. The generated and on-line docs have "OSGeo Project" logos, as does the main wiki page.

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

Yes, an "OSGeo Project" logo has been added to the postgis.org site header, as well as to the main wiki page.

Code Copyright Review

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

A Code Provenance Review document is currently being prepared.

Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?

indicate outstanding issues.

Are Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?

Yes - http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevWikiComitGuidelines still in draft and not yet adopted by PSC, and accepted by all commiters.