Deegree Incubation Status

General

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

Yes, approved on May 2nd, 2008

Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?

Yes, Jody Garnett

Infrastructure Transition

Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?

Not yet.

Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?

No. A bug tracker is already in use and can be accessed at http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?atid=212&group_id=27&func=browse

Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?

No. Mailing lists are already set up on sourceforge:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/deegree-announce/ https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/deegree-users/ https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/deegree-devel/

Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?

No. A SVN is already available at http://wald.intevation.org/projects/deegree/

Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?

No. Downloads are available from http://www.deegree.org/ -> Download

Community Functioning

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

indicate the available user support mechanisms, and whether they seem to be functioning well (are getting used and get answers).

Support mechanism are available in the form of a user mailing list and a wiki (https://wiki.deegree.org/). The users mailing list (see above) is functioning well for some years already.

Are source and binary downloads for the package available?

yes/no (and any caveats)

Yes. Available are packaged jars, source packages and also demo applications (easy to intall jar-Archives).

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

yes/no, indicate members and whether it has effective control.

Yes, there is a PSC. The PSC decides about the major directions of the deegree project, the dates and content of major releases and who the project developers are.

The PSC consists to date of:

Jens Fitzke (lat/lon) Prof. Dr. Klaus Greve (Bonn University) Dr. Markus Lupp (lat/lon) Dr. Andreas Poth (lat/lon).

The PSC can be contacted via psc -- @ -- deegree.org.

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

yes/no - provide pointers to various related documents.

Not yet. A developer guide is available. We are planning on documenting the project procedures durint the next weeks.

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

Indicate number and some organizations involved.

There are 19 active developers from multiple organisations. They are listed at http://wald.intevation.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=27

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.

Not yet.

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)

We already put an OSGeo-logo on www.deegree.org and stated deegree's status as an OSGeo project at the starting page.

Code Copyright Review

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

yes/no - point to review document.

Not yet.

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.

Not yet.