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?

Yes, but the pages are generated from Doxygen and there isn't yet an automated process in place to update them regularly. Some aspects of left side toolbar are inappropriate (wrong bug and mailinglist pointers).

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

No. GDAL has a great wealth of history in it's existing Bugzilla instance, and this would be nearly impossible to move. Sticking with existing Bugzilla instance for the time being.

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

No. It is anticipated that new gdal-announce and gdal-users mailing lists may be started on the foundation mailing list manager in the near future but this is pending discussion on gdal-dev. I have no plans to move gdal-dev at this time as it would be hard to bring along archives and user options. This may be revisited in the future.

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

No, not yet, but a transition is planned after the GDAL 1.3.2 release to CN SVN.

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

Source, documentation and test suite files are available in the OSGeo download area. Binaries are not currently available there (normally GDAL points people to FWTools).

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, but 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 1.3.1 release is completed.

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

An RFC-1 defining the role of the PSC has been written but not adopted (http://www.gdal.org/srctree/rfc/RFC1_PMC.TXT). 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