Great news, congratulations. Your proposal sounds reasonable. Might it
make sense to
add a 5th person to have a odd number to break "ties"? Perhaps an
external developer
already contributing to the codebase?
Steve
On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
All,
At FOSS4G, I had a long discussion with folks from Safe, Ingres, and
Autodesk about the future of GEOS. The bottom line is that they are
all interested in investing more in extending and moving GEOS
forwards.
In order to make those investments more effective and future-proof and
give the companies a voice in the project going forward, I am
proposing a number of measures:
(a) At a technical level, having a Trac infrastructure for bugs and
wiki notes and code browsing would be nice. I can set that up myself,
but OSGeo already has that infrastructure. So I propose migrating the
code to the OSGeo infrastructure, if possible.
(b) At a steering level, taking the Project Steering Committee (PSC)
role out of the explicit control of a single maintainer (historically
funded by Refractions) and into a full PSC.
(c) A and B above are in aid of an eventual move into OSGeo Incubation
and full OSGeo project membership. We know these will have to be done
to enter OSGeo, so might as well start now.
I would like to get the PSC boot-strapped with representatives from
the existing user/developer base of GEOS.
May I propose:
- Martin Davis, Refractions, who has an understanding of the
architecture
- Representatives of Autodesk and Safe, who already have "skin in the
game" and are gearing up for more development
- Howard Butler, who can navigate our passage into the OSGeo
infrastructure world, and provide a viewpoint from build maintenance
and script bindings
This PSC can serve for six months, adding whomever it sees fit, and
then be re-formed based on the conditions in March 2008.
Thoughts?
Paul
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