GeoNetwork Incubation Status

Basics

Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?: Yes, it was approved in Twenty First Board Meeting.

Has an OSGeo committee member been assigned as Mentor?: Yes, Jody Garnett is assigned as mentor.

Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects we presence?: No. An info sheet at http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork has been created.

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?: No. SourceForge.net tracker is in use by the project.

Is the OSGeo mailing list manager being used for the project?: No. SourceForge.net mailing list manager is in use by the project.

Is the OSGeo SVN or CVS system being used for the project?: No. SourceForge.net Subversion is used by the project.

Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)?: A Community website for the project offering a documentation section with among others Manuals, Tutorials, FAQ's and Howto's and a software section for binaries is available at http://geonetwork-opensource.org; A user, a developer and a commit mailing list are available.; The mailing lists are also accessible online via http://www.nabble.com; An IRC channel #geonetwork is registered at irc://irc.freenode.net/geonetwork; Commits are notified to the IRC channel via CIA-bot; The bug, feature and support trackers on SourceForge.net are used

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?: The latest source code is available form SVN on SourceForge.net . Source code for previous versions of GeoNetwork opensource are stored in the SourceForge.net CVS of the project.; Binaries including source code are available from SourceForge.net and can also be found on the Community website.; GeoNetwork opensource has also been published on a CD-Rom and on a DVD including other GeoFOSS software.

Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?: A Project Steering Committee was formed in 2006. The committee has seven steering committee members. The steering committee meets once a year during the GeoNetwork opensource week. A workplan for the following year is approved during that meeting.

Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.: The steering committee documentation is still under development.

How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?: The project has between 3 and 5 active committers from three different organizations.

The developer mailing list has about 120 subscriptions and the commit mailing list has 16 subscriptions.

Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?: In articles about GeoNetwork, the relation of the project and OSGEO has been emphasized explicitely.

Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?: The project web site contains the OSGEO logo on the front page and mentions that GeoNetwork opensource is an incubator project of OSGEO. More emphasis on this relation will be added once the project has graduated.

Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?: A document is under constructions at GeoNetwork Provenance Review but is not yet complete.