IncCom Report22

Incubation Status report for Q2 2013.
= Incubation Committee =
TLDR: Waiting on the board for GeoMoose announcement, and listing project officers for GeoMoose and GeoServer. Rasdaman is getting close to completing incubation requirements, Optics and Zoo-Project have been quietly working away, while gvSig has a new mentor. Remaining incubation projects show no progress, with dropping TEAM Engine discussed. Landon has some ideas for promoting OSGeo Labs projects.
Activities:
* All: GeoMoose graduation (motion passed)
* Jody: Update projects list http://www.osgeo.org/incubator (done)
* Jody: Incubation_Committee_Report_2012 (done)
* jmckenna: fix ZOO-Project link on osgeo.org (done)
* Arnulf to Mentor Marble, we will need to make a motion on the email list (done)
* Jody: ask GeoMoose for clarification on contribution, and results of code/doc/data review (done)
Pending actions from IncCom Meeting21
* Jody to contact OSM project and see if it is still ticking
* Jody: take "Incubation Phases" proposal back to email for discussion
* Jody: kalxas: filling in pycsw questionnaire
= Recent Graduates =
We are tracking recent graduates for a few months to ensure that the correct OSGeo Project logo is rolled out onto the project website, the community is informed, and the OSGeo board has a chance to make a news announcement and appoint a project officer.
==GeoMoose==
* Recommendation accepted by board, with Bob Basque as GeoMoose Project Officer
* Board Actions
** no formal press release yet? Press Release Draft: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Press_Release_GeoMoose_Graduates_Incubation
** Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
* GeoMoose actions
** Project announced graduation: http://www.geomoose.org/#geomoose-has-graduated-osgeo-project-incubation
** Home Page updated with OSGeo Project log? No: http://www.geomoose.org
== GeoServer==
* Recommendation accepted by board, with Andrea Andrea as GeoServer Project Officer
* Board actions
** Presse Release: http://www.osgeo.org/news/geoserver-graduation
** Project officer? Not yet - http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html
* GeoServer Actions
** Project Announcement: http://blog.geoserver.org/2013/03/18/geoserver-2-3-0-released-first-official-osgeo-release/
** Home Page updated with OSGeo Project logo? Yes: http://geoserver.org/
= Incubation = 
The following projects are following the OSGeo Incubation process. 
Relationship with OSGeo:
* Project are expected to display the OSGeo Project in Incubation logo on their website.
* OSGeo lists these project on the main OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org website.
Relationship with Incubation Committee:
* Each project has a mentor to help answer any questions (very helpful for sensitive subjects that cannot be discussed on an open mailing list). 
* Project are expected to link from the Incubation_Committee wiki to a Provenance Review (to confirm they are open source) and Incubation Checklist (to meet graduation requirements).
* Incubation Committee mailing list is always questions and discussion
==gvSIG==
* mentor: Dimitris Kotzinos (taking over from Jeroen Ticheler)
* contact: Manuel Madrid 
We have a new project rep, status last updated in 2011, no provenance review.
==Marble==
* Mentor: Arnulf Christl
* Website at http://www.osgeo.org/marble has been populated. 
Status updated July 2013, provenance review started at: Marble Code Provenance Review
==MetaCRS==
* mentor: Daniel Morissette
* no progress to report
Status updated in 2009, no provenance review (unclear if that is applicable for the project?)
==Opticks==
* mentor: Mark Lucas
* checlist is at 70%
Updated July 2013, not sure how to start provenance review.
==pycsw==
* mentor: Jeff McKenna
* Status updated July 2013
* Team discussed Incubation plan in late June 2013
* Team created a wiki area to hold future Incubation-status documents (https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/wiki/OSGeo-Incubation)
* Team held first hands-on workshop in June (very successful, ~40 attendees). All documents contributed back to community.
* Project momentum/activity is strong
* Team plans to form a Project Steering Committee by the end of 2013
** Question for IncCom: Can Jeff McKenna (current mentor) also be a pycsw PSC member?
==rasdaman==
The Rasdaman community seems to be past the technical hurdles of the code review and license checks, and is now working on open governance procedures.
* mentor: Bruce Bannerman
** Rasdaman Code Provenance Review (done?)
** Rasdaman Incubation Checklist. (80%)
(Bruce) My general observations on the project for the last period are:
* Overall, the project appears to be in good shape, with 26 new user registrations this month alone.
* Project activity has increased with a marked increase in email traffic on the developer and user lists.
* Considerable activity is occuring related to documenting and fine tuning of software release processes, including tying these to processes relating to the use of git.
* Work is underway to support git branching with a view towards maintained releases.
* Work is under way to support regression testing for OGC compliance e.g. WCPS and WCS. 
* Work is underway to improve the testing framework.
* Rasdaman's CRS name resolver has been deployed as OGC's official CRS name resolver.
* I'm starting to see future planning activities being presented to the Rasdaman Community for comment. This is good to see.
* We still don't have documented processes describing a range of factors, however I anticipate that these will come in time. Some examples are:
** Project Governance and processes
** Who is on the Project Steering Committee? How are PSC members (s)elected, replaced etc? What are the responsibilities of the PSC?
** What Code review is expected for new contributions? Who does this review?
* How are Commiters selected? What are their responsibilities? How is commit status reviewed?
** The project has a reasonably well defined roadmap [2]. What I'm not clear on yet is e.g.:
** How was this roadmap has been defined?
** What community review process is used to arrive at the roadmap?
** How were relative priorities determined?
** How are new priorities balanced against existing priorities?
==TEAM Engine==
* mentor: Justin Deolivera
* no progress to report
* logo not listed on project website (http://teamengine.sourceforge.net)
* Some contact on email, no status or provenance review.
Incubation committee has discussed dropping this project due to lack of progress / lack of plan to progress.
==ZOO-Project==
* mentor: Frank Warmerdam
* ongoing provenance review.
* ongoing status document.
Has started looking at the checklist, thus far only the release procedure seems missing.
= Labs =
Thanks to Landon Blake for his excellent leadership in reaching out to OSGeo Incubation Lab projects.
* We have extended an invitation to OSGeo Labs projects to participate in the incubation list, as for many routine questions we can help without a dedicated mentor.
* Landon has the idea of setting up resources for community building / project marketing / project governance
===Geoinformatica===
* Website: http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/software.shtml
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSgeo Wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_Geoinformatica
* OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pgrouting_overview.html
===pgRouting===
* Website: http://pgrouting.org
* User Mailing List: yes
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSGeo wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_pgRouting
* OSGeo Live:
===PAGC===
* Website: http://www.pagcgeo.org
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSGeo Wiki: [[OSGeo_Labs:_PAGC] (page empty)]
* OSGeo Live:
===MapProxy===
* Website: http://mapproxy.org/
* User Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pagc-users
* User Documentation: unknown / OSGeo-Live Quickstart
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSGeo Wiki: OSGeo_Labs:_MapProxy
* OSGeo Live: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/mapproxy_overview.html
===The SurveyOS KML Toolkit===
* Website:
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_The_SurveyOS_KML_Toolkit
* OSGeo Live:
===SlitherGrid===
* Website:
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_SlitherGrid (page empty)
* OSGeo Live:
===Virtual Terrain Project===
* Website: http://vterrain.org/
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSgeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_Virtual_Terrain_Project
* OSGeo Live:
==PyWPS==
* Website: http://pywps.wald.intevation.org/
* User Mailing List: no
* User Documentation: unknown
* Number of Users: no estimate
OSGeo Participation:
* OSGeo Wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs:_PyWPS
* OSGeo Live: