Infrastructure Working Group

This is a proposal for a Working Group to assess OSGeo's software infrastructure needs and provisions.

Focus

• Assess the OSGeo community's needs for code management and collaboration tools, particularly collecting requirements and feedback from the Incubation Committee and Website Committee
• Plan for the software and data repository facilities to be hosted at telascience
• Plan for the administration of telascience facilities
• Offer recommendations on future development directions to the Board

Participants

• Frank Warmerdam
• Jo Walsh
• Schuyler Erle
• Norman Vine
• Howard Butler
• Please add yourself

Meetings and discussions

• When there's enough to chat about, suggest a chat session time (perhaps one that works well with the existing Website Committee timings?
• If necessary, start a mailing list

Documents

• Project Infrastructure Migration is a very comprehensive overview of what tools the individual software projects are using now, both to manage their codebase and their communications.

• WebCom OSGeo Site Focus is a collection of site visitor use cases; when people come to the public front, what do they expect and need to find from OSGeo?

• Geodata Repository is an overview of what metadata / archiving / redistribution facilities people have discussed wanting to offer through OSGeo

Use Cases

Non-software/operations Committee use case

The Geodata committee is the first attempt at moving forward on a non-software project Committee that isn't concerned with OSGeo internal operations, so we are figuring out a lot as we go along.

• Wiki works well for sketching out rough requirements and for planning stages
• Wiki doesn't work well as a shared editing environment for pages which are destined to go onto the "Official" site - e.g. Geodata Homepage Draft
• We need some way to get multiple authors working on pages for the "official" site, without having to check them back into a live repository on subversion, or branch the pages and then re-merge them...

Auto Build / Smoke Test

Some of the software projects need a place for doing automated builds and smoke tests.

FrankW suggests this should be a service hosted on telascience OSGeo system(s)

See Also

• Incubation Committee
• Website Committee
• Public Geospatial Data Committee