[Coin-discuss] What is the COIN-OR Project Acceptance Philosophy?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 kevin.c.furman at exxonmobil.com wrote:

> Is COIN-OR only going to host a very limited number of open source OR
> software projects, or will it be more similar to SourceForge.net, such that
> any OR open source oriented project could potentially be hosted in the
> central CVS repository?
>
> If COIN-OR really has the mission to "spur the development of open-source
> software for the operations research community" and to build the OR open
> source community, shouldn't the only hard requirement for acceptance
> approval be that the project is Operations Research-oriented?

COIN-OR is interested in a broad range of contributions.  The Repository
Management Policy (to be posted shortly) states:

  - The contents of the repository should be of use to practitioners of
operations research, including students, researchers, and professionals.
  -  The contents of the repository should contribute to the advancement of
the state of the art in computational operations research.
  -  The contents of the repository should be actively managed and updated
to maintain relevance and utility.

There are some additional practical issues that contributors will need to
be aware of.  There is a review process to ensure that these guidelines
are met.  "Production" projects are expected to work, although
"development" projects are acceptable as well.  We have certain packaging
guidelines and legal requirements, but the thrust of the initiative is
emphatically broad based.

>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Furman
>
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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