[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Kurt Schwehr]

That's a bummer about funding, but I have to say that the list of work
going on with the GDAL is really exciting!

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:06 AM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> Howard Butler, Even Rouault, and Dan Baston held the monthly GDAL
> Maintainers Meeting on 08/24/2023. Alessandro was unavailable due to
> vacation conflicts.
>
> Fundraising update
> ----------------------------
>
> Obtaining sponsorship renewals continues to be challenging. Another gold
> sponsor has dropped supporting GDAL. This brings us to two gold and two
> bronze level sponsors who have declined to renew their sponsorship for
> 2023-2024 [1]. This will take away $120,000 of sponsorship funding for the
> next year. If your corporate organization values the efforts of the GDAL
> sponsorship program and are willing to step forward to continue support of
> these activities, please contact me privately and I will be happy to route
> you through NumFOCUS to help us backfill the hole. If you are a customer of
> the companies who have dropped supporting GDAL, you might mention your
> frustration with that fact through your sales or other communication
> channels.
>
> Maintenance activities update
> ------------------------------------------
>
> * Dan reports that NASA will be continuing to fund his maintenance efforts
> and activity level with the project for the next year. Thanks Dan and
> thanks NASA!
>
> * Dan continued GDAL test refactoring and enhancement to allow tests to be
> run without ordering dependencies. The ultimate goal of this effort is to
> enable parallel execution of the test suite to shorten our CI execution
> times. Specific updates here include providing temppath fixtures for many
> tests and cleaning up collisions of /vsimem calls.
>
> * Even reports slightly reduced bug and maintenance activity due to
> vacation season with about 10 tickets addressed.
>
> * Even continued enhancement of parquet/arrow and GeoParquet. This
> included providing RowGroups and group statistics when writing content,
> nested parquet datatype support and parquet attribute filtering.
>
> * Even added more epoch handling improvements in PROJ
>
> * Alessandro worked to add a unified subdataset name APIs and align the
> driver-dependent versions of the same for GDAL. This is to make it easier
> to present and consume them in applications like QGIS.
>
> * Howard, Dan, and Even had a discussion about GDAL's plugin system. This
> was continuation of discussion started at [2].
>
> * A short discussion about incrementing GDAL's base C++ level to C++17 was
> ticketed https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/8270 please provide
> feedback if you have opinions about such an increment
>
> * Dan discussed the potential of merging the capabilities of exactextract
> https://github.com/isciences/exactextract/ into GDAL's base algorithms
> for providing fast and accurate raster partial pixel polygon overlay
> statistics.
>
> * Even discussed the potential of aliasing GIntBig into standard ctypes
> int64_t.
>
> The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 09/28/2023 at 9:00 EDT. Any PSC
> members are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite.
>
> Howard
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commits/master/doc/source/sponsors/index.rst
> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2023-May/057290.html
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