GDAL Incubation Progress

Basics

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

Yes, GDAL is a board approved "founding project".

Has an OSGeo committee member been assigned as Mentor?

Yes, Paul Spencer is assigned as mentor.

Infrastructure Transition

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

www.gdal.org and gdal.osgeo.org domains both work and are hosted on a telascience blade (also download.osgeo.org). www.gdal.org is still the primary url for the project.

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

Yes. GDAL is using http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal.

Is the OSGeo mailing list manager being used for the project?

The gdal-dev list remains hosted at maptools.org to avoid disruption. The new gdal-announce and gdal-commits lists are hosted on http://lists.osgeo.org

Is the OSGeo SVN or CVS system being used for the project?

Yes, OSGeo subversion is being used.

Are binary and source downloads available from the OSGeo download area?

Source, documentation and test suite files are available in the OSGeo download area (http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/). Only limited binaries are available there. Currently the GDAL project only supplies binaries for win32. Other efforts, like FWTools and FGS provide binaries for other platforms.

Community Functioning

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

Yes, the gdal-dev list is currently the primary mechanism for user support. Most questions are answered reasonably promptly. Traffic averages 10 messages per day.

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

Yes. Source is available from the project page. Binaries are provided as part of FWTools. Currently there are no "release binaries" offered as part of the project.

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

The project steering committee has been selected, and RFC1 governing it's operation has been adopted, but it has not been assigned control of the project yet. The members are Frank Warmerdam (chair), Andrey Kiselev, Daniel Morissette and Howard Butler. The PSC is expected to "take control" after the GDAL 1.3.2 release is completed.

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

An RFC defining the role of the PSC has been written and adopted. No other guidelines have been prepared.

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

There are approximately 27 current committers that have contributed within the last year. They are from a wide variety of organizations and some are individuals.

Foundation Membership

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

Yes, details on membership and governance have been prepared on the GDAL Governance Page.

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

No. An OSGeo branding approach has not yet been defined. It's application to Doxygen generated web pages may be challenging.

Code Copyright Review

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

A document is under constructions at GDAL Provenance Review but is not yet complete.

Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?

No