Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of PSC/Creation2006

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May 14, 2016, 8:26:59 AM (8 years ago)

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neteler

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moved 2006 notes here

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+== Historical Notes on creation of GRASS GIS PSC 2006 ==
+
+=== 1st Letter to GRASS mailing lists ===
+
+{{{
+                                     02/10/2006 06:15 PM
+Dear GRASS community,
+
+in the Chicago meeting the GRASS project was suggested to
+as one of the initial OSGeo foundation projects.
+
+So far I only received positive feedback on the idea of
+moving GRASS more formally to the foundation (while the
+individual authors are keeping their copyright which is
+a major difference to the Apache Foundation.)
+
+A couple of things will have to be sorted out in the
+coming months to make GRASS's membership possible (below
+list is inspired by Frank's mail to the GRASS project):
+
+o We will need to form a "GRASS Project Steering Committee"
+  (PSC). Foundation projects need a formalized management
+  which may be desired in any case. I would be glad to 
+  receive suggestions of names for this committee. For
+  inspiration, please look at the MapServer Technical
+  Steering Committee as described here:
+
+    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1
+
+o One benefit of the foundation is some degree of legal
+   support and protection for the project. The flip side of that
+   is that the foundation needs to ensure some degree of
+   rigor and process in how code comes into the project. One
+   part of that is getting committers to sign a legal agreement
+   indicating that they agree that changes they commit will
+   be under the license of GRASS (GPL) and that they have 
+   the right to submit the code (they wrote it, it is not
+   patented, have permission from their employer, etc).
+
+o We will have to review the existing code base (which is
+   huge - more than 500000 lines of source code in GRASS 6).
+   Luckily a major code review was already done for GRASS 5.
+   Also the "Debianization" process was performed for GRASS
+   5 and GRASS 6.
+
+o It is suggested to move the support infrastructure for GRASS
+   to new foundation systems. Stuff like CVS (maybe SVN then),
+   and bugtracker and mailing lists. The web site will also
+   likely appear under a foundation subdomain (ie. grass.osgeo.org)
+   with hopefully the known mirror site structure as before
+   with grass.itc.it, grass.ibiblio.org etc as principal mirror
+   sites. If so, the web site will be migrated into a contents
+   management system (CMS) in a harmonized "foundation style".
+   A CMS will hopefully solve the problem to get more people
+   involved in the Web site contents management.
+
+o We hope to establish options to enable sponorship for the
+   foundation - be as direct funding or for selected foundation
+   projects. Details have to be worked out. My suggestion is to 
+   create national tax-exempt organizations (such as the
+   German GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. which already exists)
+   which may offer to receive donations.
+
+o For now we should think about nominating people with
+   recognized contribution to the GRASS project, to
+   free data, to whatever deems significant. A small paragraph
+   describing why the candidate is proposed as member to
+   the foundation is needed as well. This will be announced
+   more formally soon. Please see ongoing discussions here:
+   http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
+
+(Nearly) nothing is set in stone yet.
+More details will follow, a couple of official documents
+are being currently prepared
+
+Your feedback is welcome.
+
+Markus
+}}}
+
+
+=== 2nd Letter to GRASS mailing lists ===
+
+{{{
+                                        02/11/2006 12:16 AM
+Dear all,
+
+while I already received two suggestions for a GRASS 
+Project Steering Committee (PSC), I suggest to post the
+nominations in public, if there are no objections.
+I would like to have that transparent to everyone.
+
+Nominations should contain the name and a short paragraph
+why it is a good candidate. We also have to decide,
+how many members the PSC should have.
+
+It is worth reading
+- http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
+   (they are very successful, and the document applies much
+    to the GRASS project culture)
+
+- http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1/
+   (MS RFC 1: Technical Steering Committee Guidelines)  
+    apparently 7 members there.
+
+- http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2006-February/thread.html#7881
+    (GDAL PSC to be formed)
+
+- http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-10/
+   (MS RFC 10: Joining the Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
+
+Related:
+- https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9682788&forum_id=475
+  (Community MapBuilder PMC membership nomination)
+- https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9673493&forum_id=475
+  (MapBuilder & Mapbender and the OSGeo Foundation)
+
+In fact, there is lot of material to digest in these days..
+
+Markus
+}}}
+
+=== 3rd Letter to GRASS Dev mailing list ===
+
+{{{
+Markus Neteler  neteler at itc.it Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:10:25 +0200
+
+On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:00:01PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
+...
+> Alpha support in the current display architecture isn't going to
+> happen (I reverted the last attempt to add it, and will do likewise in
+> future).
+
+... this is why I really suggest to get interested in a project
+steering committee [1], [2].
+
+Instead of recursively reverted changes of other developers,
+we should come up with a design discussion and then *vote* on it.
+At least for such crucidal pieces of the code I would like to 
+see less anarchy and a more formal approach. This will render
+development more transparent to everybody. The scope cannot be to
+have two display management systems in parallel, one without
+and one with alpha support.
+
+Existing steering committees, to get inspired from:
+ Mapserver: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1
+ GDAL:      http://www.gdal.org/rfc1_pmc.html
+ Mapbender: http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Mapbender_PSC
+ ...
+
+Please think about it!
+
+Thanks
+
+ Markus
+
+[1] http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-February/021178.html
+[2] http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-April/022185.html
+}}}
+
+Answers:
+
+ * http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2006-April/thread.html#22556
+
+=== Nominations 2006 ===
+
+''The comments were copied from the [http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?userPosts=y&user=449164&query=psc&sort=date related emails].''
+
+ * Brad Douglas (nominated by 11): for clone removal and code refactoring
+ * Cedric Shock (nominated by 11): various code contributions
+ * Dylan Beaudette (nominated by 4): deep commitment to community, publishes useful tips
+ * Glynn Clements (nominated by 1): for his vast knowledge of standards, practices and compatibility
+ * Hamish Bowman (nominated by 11): for documentation, integration, and various modules
+ * Helena Mitasova (nominated by 1): for the obvious
+ * Maciej Sieczka (nominated by 5):
+ * Markus Neteler (nominated by 14): for the obvious.  :-)
+ * Michael Barton (nominated by 12): very responsive to comments and questions; various code contributions
+ * Paolo Zatelli (nominated by 1 ): no reason given
+ * Paul Kelly (nominated by 11): for PROJ and platform support
+ * Radim Blazek (nominated by 1): for his extensive GRASS work including vector and DBMS support
+ * Roger Bivand (nominated by 7): no reason given
+ * Venkatesh Raghavan (nominated by 9):
+ * Massimiliano Cannata (nominated by 1):
+
+Declined (please reconsider)
+
+ * Radim Blazek (nominated by 1): for his extensive GRASS work including vector and DBMS support
+
+=== Status September 2006 ===
+
+'''The GRASS Project Steering Committee ([PSC])''' - officially formed 11th Sept. 2006.
+
+ * '''Michael Barton''' (michael barton * asu edu)
+ * '''Dylan Baudette''' (debeaudette * ucdavis edu)
+ * '''Hamish Bowman''' (hamish_nospam * yahoo com)
+ * '''Massimiliano Cannata''' (massimiliano cannata * supsi ch)
+ * '''Brad Douglas''' (rez * touchofmadness com)
+ * '''Paul Kelly''' (paul-grass stjohnspoint co uk)
+ * '''Helena Mitasova''' (hmitaso * unity ncsu edu)
+ * '''Scott Mitchell''' (smitch * mac com)
+ * '''Markus Neteler''' (neteler * osgeo org) (chair)
+ * '''Maciej Sieczka''' (tutey * o2 pl)
+
+(see also [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Team GRASS Team page])
+
+Next step: Revise [wiki:RFC/1_ProjectSteeringCommitteeGuidelines RFC1] (Request For Comment) for the GRASS community to consider
+
+=== Status November 2006 ===
+
+A [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc/ dedicated GRASS-PSC mailing list] has been created. It is open to the public.
+
+=== Status December 2006 ===
+
+The PSC has an Agenda (more there).