Community Mapbuilder Incubation Progress

Basics

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

Yes.

Has an OSGeo committee member been assigned as Mentor?

Cameron Shorter is both on the OSGeo committee and is on the Mapbuilder PSC.

Q for OSGeo: Is this sufficient, or are you looking for an independent OSGeo member?

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?

http://communitymapbuilder.osgeo.org has been set up, but not populated.

Comments from Cameron Shorter: Currently I reluctant to move our services to colabnet. Migrating to Colabnet would involve a medium amount of effort and would loose some information like bugs from the bug tracker.

Should we leave OSGeo in the future, or OSGeo decides to stop using Collabnet, we would be faced with a similar exit cost because there is not a free version of Colabnet for Open Source projects.

I would prefer to keep all project tools on one server rather than many. Currently codehaus.org is providing our tools.

Q for Mapbuilder: Any comments to add here? Provide feedback to the mapbuilder-devel list.

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

No. See justification above.

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

No. Lists are stored on Sourceforge which has a slightly better interface - (Web subscribe interface, threads in the archieve). We could move our lists in future if archieves can be moved as well. But as yet, I don't see a need to move to an inferior tool.

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

No. See justification above.

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

Not yet, but we can do this if needed.

Community Functioning

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

Yes, we have a busy list with lots of answers to user queries.

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Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

Yes. [3]

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

Yes. Project Steering Committee has been in effect since the start of the project. It currently consists of:

• Cameron Shorter
• Mike Adair
• Patrice Cappelaere
• Steven Ottens

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

Documentation in this area is a bit weak. This is what I could find:

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Action on Mapbuilder: We need to be more specific about project decision making.

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

4 Core developers (the PSC) and around 10 to 15 other developers.

All the PSC work for different organisations and live in different countries. Similarly, the developers and users all come from different organisations and geographic locations.

Foundation Membership

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

Not yet.

Question for OSGeo: What are you looking for here?

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

Not yet. We will wait for an OSGeo web style to be established before using this style.

Code Copyright Review

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

No. Action on Mapbuilder.

Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?

indicate outstanding issues.