| 1 | OSSIM is one of the founding projects for the [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geo-spatial Foundation OSGEO]]. All projects in the OSGeo need to go through an incubation process that will help guarantee the long term viability and continued open source status of the project. |
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| 3 | OSGeo Incubation Steps |
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| 5 | 1) Getting organized governance structures in place and documenting them |
| 6 | if they don't already exist. Normally this is accomplished as some sort |
| 7 | of RFC type document describing your project steering committee's |
| 8 | operation. |
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| 10 | 2) Do a review of your code base for possible issues. This is sometimes |
| 11 | referred to as a provenance review. |
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| 13 | 3) Make sure you have rules in place for your committers to ensure they |
| 14 | understand their responsibilities with regard to keeping the provenance |
| 15 | clean after the review. |
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| 17 | 4) Review others issues with the openness and professionalism of the project |
| 18 | that you think should be addressed as part of incubation. In the past |
| 19 | this has included things like institutionalizing use of a bug database, |
| 20 | improving user documentation, and automated build and smoketests. |
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| 22 | 5) Consider taking advantage of OSGeo infrastructure hosting for things like |
| 23 | svn, downloads, trac, buildbot. As well as lightening the load for your |
| 24 | project admins, it should also ensure fairly timely resolution of |
| 25 | infrastructure problems. |