Tools Spec

Why this document exists

This is an attempt to write a role-centered description of how the different software components that projects are using, described in Project Infrastructure Migration fit together. Single sign-on to a lot of different services could be offered.

There are really two components of this, because OSGeo the Foundation needs one set of tools to communicate between and about itself; there is also an intention to provide hosted services that OSGeo projects and participants need but can't provide themselves, wanting the benefit of a stable home.

Roles

Member

• Can be a member of one or more committees or projects
• Has group-based access to subversion
• May have system access, ssh etc
• Sends messages
• Can be subscribed to mailing lists associated with projects
• Has a location

Project

• Has members
• Has mailing list facilities
• Has home pages
• Has its own subdomain of osgeo.org
• Has meetings
• Has news/talk items to publish
• Has a public bug tracker
• Has document archiving facilities
• Has a collaboration space

Committee

* Has all the properties of a project

Local Chapter

* Has all the properties of a project

Objects

Message

• Has a timestamp
• Has a lot of different recipients
• Is connected to a project
• Could have keywords

Meeting

• Has participants
• Has logs, perhaps has minutes or a summary
• Has a time and medium/place

Request

• Task or bug
• Submitted at a time, by a person
• Actionable by a person

Data Set

• Members may want to upload and create metadata about data sets as part of a project.
• Data sets may have spatial metadata and be indexed and searched for that way

Special Features

• Some kind of voting facility - secure for board elections - more automated for processes like logo/motto selection
• Survey facility

References

ASF Projects site

The Apache Software Foundation has a project directory at http://projects.apache.org/ built by collecting models from DOAP, 'Description of a Project' files that each project contributes.