GeoMoose Incubation Checklist

Incubation checklist reviewed on email list, links provided below.

• http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geomoose-users/2012-May/004016.html

In response to this review several improvements were made by the community (see RFC section below).

Incubation Checklist

Open

1. Open and public manner

License:

• http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html <-- MIT based License

Open Meetings:

• http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
• http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/2012_07_26_Meeting <-- incubation discussed here
• http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/09_14_2012_Roadmap_Planning_Meeting

Public decision making process:

• RFC 1: Project Steering Committee Guidelines
• RFC 2: GeoMOOSE Project Mission (What is GeoMOOSE)
• RFC 3: GeoMOOSE Release Process

2. Active and healthy community

Community of developers and users:

• http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-users-f4585800.html
• http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/GeoMOOSE-f5002154.html

Participation from multiple developers and organisations:

• https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

Copyright and License

1. license

• http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
• https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/LICENSE

2. documentation license

• no explicit documentation license

3. code, documentation, and data reviewed

• http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoMoose_Provenance_Review

4. List of copyright holders

• http://www.geomoose.org/info/license.html
• https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk/AUTHORS.rst

5. Contribution agreement

• no code contribution agreement used (authors retain copyright?)
• http://www.geomoose.org/developer/contribute.html

Processes

1. code under configuration management

• https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk

2. issue tracker

• http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/

3. management processes

Suitable open governance policy:

• http://www.geomoose.org/rfc/rfc-1.html

public communication channel for decision making::

• http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Meetings
• see email lists above

Documentation

1. user documentation:

• Started
• GeoMoose Documentation

2. developers documentation:

• Developers Documentation
• http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/api/

3. Release Procedure

• How to Release

OSGeo Committees and Community

Board

1. Project Officer: TBD

Marketing

1. Marketting details

• http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
• http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geomoose_quickstart.html

2. Stable release available

• http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geomoose_overview.html
• http://www.geomoose.org/info/download.html

Projects

Integration of:

• MapServer
• OpenLayers
• Dojo Toolkit

Release procedure includes version check (Apache, Dojo, MapServer) and a release candidate window for testing. Project policy is to use stable release of OpenLayers.

SAC

1. Link provided to geomoose website, http://geomoose.osgeo.org not used

2. SAC facilities:

• issue tracker: http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose/
• mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geomoose-users
• subversion: https://svn.osgeo.org/geomoose/geomoose2/trunk
• downloads: http://www.geomoose.org/downloads/