On 11/06/2013 12:41 PM, Ivan Mincik wrote: > Dear Alan, at first thank You for Your work (and also for work of others in > this project). I am following UbuntuGIS for some time and I started to > maintain my own PPA fork [1] some time ago, because I needed full control > of packages. I am little bit involved in packaging. Here is my opinion: > > 1. This project definitely needs a strong leader with experience. > Or PSC, I don't think there needs to be one person in charge if there's a group that meets regularly to set the items below.
> 2. UbuntuGIS lacks clear roadmap. Maybe it is loosing skilled hands just > because they are not aware about fact they are needed. Preparing roadmap > must by one of the most important tasks of project leader and PSC. > It doesn't seem like this would be hard to write up if a few of us met online for a few minutes. > 3. Other very important task is clearly stated work flow in terms how to > cooperate with Debian on regular basis. > Agreed, seems recent meetings might have started down this path. > 4. Still at least by my opinion, the PPA naming stable, testing, unstable > is very confusing for all newcomers which automatically expect the same > behavior as in Debian. If this schema remains the same, or it will change > to something other, it needs clearly documented workflow how packages > migrates from testing, staging to production and how often and under which > circumstances production packages are upgraded. > I agree this is confusing and maybe the roadmap helps clear it up. > 5. As in other voluntary projects, there is a lack of manpower. But on the > other hand, there are no rules which new contributors or uploaders must > meet. Also I do not see any list of free tasks for new people. > I'm not aware of anyone being a designated maintainer, so its more a free for all once someone is granted access. Maybe we need to keep a list of who is responsible for what, of course when one project needs half the packages rebuilt that gets tricky to coordinate/wait. > 6. The last one is the question if there is some possibility to get some > support from OSGeo [2] ? > What kind of support besides the mailing list, trac site, summer of code spot? Thanks, Alex > Even if these goals are unrealistic, I think having them is must for > further grow of this project. > > 1 - https://launchpad.net/~imincik/+archive/gis > 2 - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Binary_Distribution > > Thanks, > > Ivan Mincik > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Alan Boudreault > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As a few of you may already know, I've recently decided to quit my job at >> Mapgears (http://t.co/aIgMAFlf2h). I'm still working at Mapgears as a >> part-time job but my availability for ubuntugis is limited. >> >> For to goodness of UbuntuGIS, I would like to create a PSC (Project >> Steering Committee) for the project. There are many competent people on >> this list and a lot of ubuntu users. The PSC responsabilities would include: >> >> - setting the overall development road map >> - improve collaboration with DebianGIS >> - trying to bring more developers! >> - etc. >> >> I also think UbuntuGIS needs a new senior package maintainer. Jérome did a >> great job during the summer and will continue to work on the project with >> Mapgears.. but he is still at school for the moment. >> >> I'd like to hear what you think... >> >> Best Regards, >> Alan >> >> -- >> Alan Boudreault >> http://www.mapgears.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> UbuntuGIS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu >> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki > _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
