Project Status Draft
Document Status
Version: 2.0alpha1
Status: draft
Last Edited: March 13, 2014
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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.
- Desirable: 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
We are asking some infrastructure questions up front in case you need any help getting set up. 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: http://postgis.net is an example home page, while http://postgis.refractions.net is the original vendor specific home page.
- Tip: If you would like a http://project.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 publication at http://downloads.osgeo.org/ is needed
Community
- 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).
- Tip: This is your chance to mention a user guide, project wiki, mailing list, IRC channel or participation in support site such as http://gis.stackexchange.com
- Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
- yes/no (and any caveats)
- Desirable: History of releasing software
- Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
- yes/no, indicate members and whether it has effective control.
- Criteria: public decision making process (meeting minuets or request for chance procedure)
- Desirable: Opportunity for public participation in project direction
- Tip: Many projects use MapServer RFC procedure as a starting point
- Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
- Link to developers guide or similar
- Criteria: public decision making process
- How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
- Indicate number and some organizations involved.
Foundation
- Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo Incubation logo?
- OSGeo logos, including project in incubation logo, are provided here.
- Criteria: OSGeo Incubation Logo on home page
- Desirable: Image links to http://osgeo.org/ home page
- Have project documents been updated to reflect participation in OSGeo Incubation?
- Just looking to acknowledge participation.
- Criteria: Reflect membership in OSGeo Foundation
- Criteria: Incubation Status
Review
- Are Committer Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?
- Link to the guidelines and comitter acceptance
- Criteria: Indicate if committer guidelines have been adopted by project steering committee (or similar)
- Criteria: Record showing all committers have accepted guidelines
- Criteria: Guidelines provide clear permission for project to distribute contributions
- Desirable: Public record of committer acceptance preferred
- Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?
- Link to review document (often a wiki page or google document)
- Criteria: Ensure project owns (or has otherwise obtained permission) to source code used
- Criteria: Ensure project owns (or has otherwise obtained permission) for any sample data used
- Tip: Check Incubation_Committee#Graduated graduated projects for ideas, or review draft Code_Provenance_Review
- Desirable: Headers provide clear indication of copyright and distribution license
- Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
- Link to outstanding issues
- Tip: Once again Incubation_Committee#Graduated graduated projects for ideas. Projects have used issue trackers, or simply linked to archived email discussions