PostGIS Incubation Status
General
- Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
- Yes, see: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-08-06#Minutes
- Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
- Arnulf Christl has been assigned as mentor.
Infrastructure Transition
Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.
- Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
- If not why, and has the project page got a prominent link to the real home?
- Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
- Yes http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis
- Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
- If not, why?
- Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
- Yes http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis
- Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
- If not, why?
Community Functioning
- Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?
- Yes, there is a web site describing the support mechanisms (http://www.postgis.org/support/) and mailing lists for code users, developers and code repository commits.
- Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
- yes/no (and any caveats)
- Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
- yes
- indicate members and whether it has effective control.
- The member list available at http://postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/ch01.html#psc
- PSC is in control of development / QA and appoints committer.
- Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
- yes/no - provide pointers to various related documents. Yes on contributor guidelines. We are still working on our project procedures
PostGIS developer wiki defines contributor guidelines in the Patch submission section]
- How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
- Indicate number and some organizations involved.
- List of contributors
- There are developers from at least four companies (Refractions, OpenGeo, Sirius, Paragon Corporation, CadCorp, Oslandia) plus several free lance developers
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?
- yes/no - point to review document.
- Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
- indicate outstanding issues.
- Are Commiter Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?
- yes/no - point to the guidelines and indicate if it is adopted by PSC, and accepted by all commiters.