MapServer incubation status

Basics

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

Yes, selected for "founding project" incubation by the OSGeo board.

Has an Incubation committee member been assigned as Mentor?

Yes, Chris Holmes has been assigned as MapServer incubation mentor.

Infrastructure Transition

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

No. This may be a major issue since we have invested a tremendous amount of time developing a Plone-based site. The is no desire to move away from that platform.

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

No. A bugzilla repository is still hosted at the University of Minnesota.

Bug tracking repository moved?

No. A bugzilla repository is still hosted at the University of Minnesota.

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

No. mailing lists are hosted at http://lists.umn.edu/ and we would like to move to OSGeo hosted lists at some point soon.

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

No. Code is hosted in CVS at cvs.gis.umn.edu and is ok for now. Would like to move at some point.

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

No, currently still just at the UMN download site.

Community Functioning

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

The mapserver-users mailing list is quite active and well posed questions often result in more than one helpful response.

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

Yes, visit http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/

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

Partially. MapServer has a technical steering committee that will likely fill this role. RFC-1 will have to be ammended to establish the TSC as the PSC.

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

Yes, see RFC's (for TSC, and committer rules at least). May need to review committer rules in light of tighter OSGeo policy.

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

Yes, approximately 15 committers are established from 10 or more organizations.

Foundation Membership

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

If not, indicate when this will occur.

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

If not, indicate what is planned. (note: currently an OSGeo web style has not bee established)

Code Copyright Review

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

The code provenance review has begun and a roster of siginificant developers has been built and is available via the MapServer website. We are using an online spreadsheet as to tool to track the review, presence of a license, etc... for each source file in the MapServer distribution.

Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?

indicate outstanding issues.