Hi Frank, Currently GeoTools is running out of blocking issues for the incubator process, as our mentor perhaps you can offer guidance :-)
We have set our own goals of: - user documentation (going to be a topic of the day at FOSS4G I am sure) - ensuring the (c) situation is clear - the best solution is to ask OSGEO to hold (c) So code ownership *is* a blocking issue (would not ask OSGEO foundation to represent a codebase who's ownership is held by a non legal entity), but it is not the only one. Our user documentation is being held up by volunteer effort (and answering the doc license questions would help there - although we have a workaround of asking ACuster to hold the docs until OSGEO can give us feedback). I tried to outline a process by which we could assign ownership (in terms of packaging a same build), but never got any feedback. So we are happy, and we are kicking the OSGEO into defining process (perfect for an incubation project). Jody > Martin Desruisseaux wrote: >> Jody Garnett a écrit : >>> Not really encouraging but we did make their board meeting. >>> - >>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Seventeenth_Board_Meeting#Status_report_on_legal_issue >>> >>> >> >> What are the blocker issues? Any chance we get a talk about that at >> Lausane? > > Jody / Martin, > > I have an action item from the last Incubator meeting which is to prepare > something for the board to approve making it clear that project PSCs > will be > in charge of code assigned to the foundation on their behalf. > > At this stage, this will likely be a "statement of position" by the > board, > but when we revise the foundation bylaws, it hopefully be included in the > bylaws as part of a section describing PSC powers, and independence. > > I explained this at the board meeting, and the board members present > seemed > to be agreeable with the idea. This had been the intent of the board > since > the early on. > > So the blocker is that I haven't yet written something up. Partly > because > I'm busy but also partly because I'm trying to percolate in the back > of my > head whether the statement out to be more broad, trying to cover the > whole > topic of PSC independence, and what the boundaries of that are. > > Is having this statement a blocking issue for GeoTools? > > The other topic that I think is more of a blocker understanding the steps > we need to go through for copyright assignment. I'll take that up on the > incubator list with Jennifer (an Autodesk lawyer) and Rich. Basically we > need to get a prototype assignment letter so we know how to do this > legally. > > Best regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
