Incubation Committee

The project incubation committee is responsible for overseeing the incubation process for new projects entering the foundation. The incubation committee provides resources to assist new projects to reach full membership, and makes recommendations to the board when they feel projects have completed incubation.

Documents

• Official incubator web page is at: http://incubator.osgeo.org
• IncubatorTODO
• Thoughts on Project Incubation
• Proposed Project Submission Process
• Contributor Agreement and FAQ
• Incubation FAQ
• Code Provenance Review
• Graduating Incubation Criteria
• Project Infrastructure Migration
• Incubation Mentor Guidelines

Meetings

• First Meeting
• Second Meeting
• Third Meeting
• Fourth Meeting

Progress

We are watching the initial projects go through the incubation process as a method of defining what is required. The following pages track the progress (and experience) of these projects (see also related Incubator Application Form).

• Project Status Template
• Community Mapbuilder: Community Mapbuilder Incubation Progress
• Geotools: GeoTools Incubation Progress
• GDAL/OGR: GDAL Incubation Progress | GDAL Provenance Review
• GRASS: GRASS Incubation Progress | GRASS Provenance Review
• Mapbender: Mapbender Incubation Progress | Mapbender Provenance Review
• MapServer: MapServer incubation status
• OSSIM: OSSIM incubation status

Each project may also have a page describing the incubation process on their own community website, the above pages are explicitly for the incubation comittee to learn from experience.

Project Incubation Milestones

These are the milestones to be watched for projects undergoing incubation

• Approved to start incubation by community/board ( Incubator Application Form)
• project created
• Project owner assigned
• PSC created and Incubator rep assigned to project
• Hosted code in subversion
• Downloadable binary
• documentation online
• Internal developers online (for a corporate sponsored project)
• External developers online
• Public invited to contribute

Tool specific milestomes

• Home page setup
• Mailing list active
• Project Tracker queries ready

Project Incubation Progress & Status

Current Status of Incubated Projects

GDAL

• Approved to start incubation by community/board
• Project Created
• Project owner: Frank Warmerdam

GeoTools

• Approved to start incubation by community/board
• project created
• project owner: Chris Holmes

GRASS

• Community approval and PSC pending (nominations done) due to CLA issues

Mapbender

• Approved to start incubation by community/board
• project created
• project owner: Arnulf Christl

MapBuilder

MapGuide Open Source

• Approved to start incubation by community/board
• Project owner Robert (Bob) Bray
• project created
• Hosted code
• Downloadable binary
• documentation online
• developers online
• Sub projects in progress (multiple FDO projects)

MapServer

• Approved to start incubation by community/board
• Project owner: Steve Lime
• project created

OSSIM

• Approved by community/board
• project created
• Project owner: Mark Lucas