Hey PMC,
I'm proposing this idea: creating a GitHub organization
called "LocationTech-Labs", or some similar name, which could
house repositories for projects that are not quite
LocationTech-proposal-ready, but are being hacked on by
cross-organization locationtech committers. These projects
would follow the IP Due Diligence in the hopes that the
projects would get to a point that a proposal and incubation
makes sense.
This arises from the fact that the GeoTrellis team and the
GeoMesa team are combining forces for hacking out python
bindings for our frameworks. It's both a feature we are
currently working on for our separate projects, and we figured
it would be best, and most in the spirit of LocationTech's
mission of collaboration, to work on them together. We have
some code from each side that we want to put into a single
place. There's other places we could host it (e.g. the
GeoTrellis GitHub organization); however the idea is that
these python bindings would eventually be a separate
collaborative incubating LocationTech project, and it would be
great to start in a repository that isn't "owned" by any one
of the contributors and is LocationTech branded.
If this is a good idea, and if it's ok to call the thing
"LocationTech-Labs" or something similar what has LocationTech
in the name, I'd like to create one today. I would give admin
rights to eclipsewebmaster, and invite PMC members (who's
github handles I know) onto a team that has write access and
the ability to create new repositories.
/ccing Wayne and Paul, who specifically I would like to
weigh in on the idea of creating an org with "LocationTech" in
the name, and if that's copacetic for a PMC member to do.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Rob