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