Project Status
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Version: 1.2
Last Updated: 2014-03-07
The project representative and mentor (Jeff McKenna) will use this template to inform the IncCom of pycsw's project status on a periodic basis. The state of the pycsw project, as reported using this template, will be the initial indication that pycsw is reaching graduation.
- Has the project been approved for incubation by the OSGeo board?
- Yes (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2013-March/002167.html).
- Has an Incubation Mentor been assigned to the project?
- Yes (Jeff McKenna).
Note, for each of the following it isn't necessary to move to foundation infrastructure, but if you aren't a reason should be provided.
- Has the projectname.osgeo.org domain been populated with the projects web presence?
- A direct link to http://pycsw.org/ is used from the main OSGeo.org home page, in the "Incubating Projects" panel.
- Is the OSGeo bug tracker being used for the project?
- No, issues are hosted on GitHub, which allow reference to / from source code. GitHub bug tracker hosting is now common for OSGeo projects (eg. MapServer, OpenLayers)
- Is the OSGeo mailing list manager (http://lists.osgeo.org/) being used for the project?
- Yes (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pycsw-devel). There are currently 30 registered members.
- Is the OSGeo SVN being used for the project?
- No, pycsw uses Git/GitHub (https://github.com/geopython/pycsw) for source code management, wiki and issues.
- Are binary and source downloads available from http://download.osgeo.org ?
- Yes (http://download.osgeo.org/pycsw/)
- Is there a functioning user support mechanisms (ie. mailing list)? indicate the available user support mechanisms, and whether they seem to be functioning well (are getting used and get answers).
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Yes. The mailing list is very active. There is also considerable activity in projects like GeoNode and CKAN, given pycsw can be embedded in downstream applications.
There is also a very thorough Workshop to follow (http://geopython.github.io/pycsw-workshop), as well as several live demos of pycsw in action (http://demo.pycsw.org/), including a jQuery/Leaflet viewer (http://demo.pycsw.org/viewer/index.html).
- Are source and binary downloads for the package available?
- Yes. Source is available at http://pycsw.org/download/ pycsw is available on the OSGeo-Live project (http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pycsw_overview.html), and packages exist for openSUSE and Ubuntu. pycsw is also available on the Python Package Index (PyPI)
- Has a Project Steering Committee been formed, and given control of the project?
- No, a PSC has not been formed yet. Initial discussion of membership has occurred.
- Does the Project Steering Committee have documentation on project procedures for PSC decisions, contributor guidelines, etc.
- N/A
- How many active developers are there? Are they from multiple organizations?
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Number of active developers: 3
Organizations: National Technical University of Athens, Azavea, volunteer contributors
In the last 12 months there have been 7 active contributors (source: Ohloh http://www.ohloh.net/p/pycsw/contributors?sort=latest_commit&time_span=12+months)
- Have project documents been updated to reflect membership in the foundation, and the relationship of the project to the foundation?
- N/A
- Has an effort been made to brand the project web site with OSGeo foundation web styling and branding marks?
- The site does contain a "OSGeo: Project in Incubation" graphic (bottom right of http://pycsw.org/)
- Has a Code Provenance Review document been prepared for the project?
- No
- Have issues raised in the provenance review been adequately addressed?
- N/A
- Are Committer Responsibilities Guidelines covering legal issues in place?
- No
