Project Status Draft

Document Status

Version: 2.0alpha1

Status: draft

Last Edited: March 13, 2014

Previous documents:

• status template
• evaluation

Purpose

Welcome to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. This status template is used by your project team (and project mentor) to start incubation and communicate with the incubation committee. As you progress through incubation please update this page as it is an initial indication you are ready for graduation.

To assist in answering these questions we have provided the evaluation criteria used by your mentor.

When ready your project mentor will ask you to fill in the final project graduation checklist. Your project mentor will cordinate review with the incubation committee and make the final motion for graduation.

Status Template

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

Yes / No - presumably yes.

Criteria: Link to OSGeo board minuets where motion to accept has passed.

Desirable: Board motion clearly mentions project name and project mentor

Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?

Indicate Incubation committee volunteer acting as project mentor.

Desirable: Board motion clearly mentions project name and project mentor

Infrastructure

The OSGeo Foundation can help provide hosting, mailing lists and bug trackers. Raise a ticket system admin committee for help.

Home Page

The system admin committee needs this information to update http://www.osgeo.org Incubating Projects list.

Criteria: vendor neutral home page

Desirable: Project has contributions and interest from more than just one company/organization.'

Example: [[1]] is an example home page, while [[2]] is the original vendor specific home page.

Tip: If you would like a http://project name.osgeo.org domain just ask!

Issue Tracker

If your project is big enough for an issue tracker please provide a link.

Desirable: Bugzilla, CodeHaus JIRA, GitHub Issues, SourceForge etc..

Tip: OSGeo can setup a bug tracker on request.

Mailing Lists

What are your project mailing lists? Your project mentor will need this information to sign up to the development mailing list.

Criteria: Public mailing list

Desirable: Demonstrate communication with users.

Tip: If you need a new mailing list at lists.osgeo.org please ask.

Version Control

How can developers access the source code?

Criteria: public codebase

Tip: OSGeo can provide subversion hosting if requested

Downloads

Where can we download binary and source bundles?

Desirable: History of releasing software

Tip: OSGeo can provide http://downloads.osgeo.org/ is needed