[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Sean Gillies]

Thank you, Howard for reminding sponsors how important their support is!

On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 9:14 AM Howard Butler via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, and Alessandro Pasotti held the
> monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 09/28/2023. The following items were
> discussed and reported upon:
>
> Fundraising update
> ----------------------------
>
> Good news on fundraising: Amazon Web Services, who had previously
> announced they were not going to be able to renew their Gold level
> sponsorship for 2024, was able to reverse the decision and continue
> sponsoring GDAL at the same level for the next year.
>
> Also Maxar, who had previously announced they were not going to be able to
> renew their Gold level for 2024, was able to reverse the decision and
> continue sponsoring GDAL for the next year the Bronze level.
>
> Thanks again to the advocates within both of these organizations for
> continuing to push for resources despite being told 'no'. We still have a
> number of renewals to complete before we are done for the cycle this year.
>
> Maintenance activities update
> ------------------------------------------
>
> * Even attended the NumFOCUS Project Summit September 11-13th in
> Amsterdam. https://www.summit.numfocus.org/ where he gave a lightning
> talk about GDAL's extensive CI system
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/presentations/NumFocus%20Summit%202023%20Tour%20of%20tools%20used%20by%20GDAL%20CI%2C%20testing%20and%20documentation.pdf
> and discussed Arrow topics with Joris Van den Bossche and Martin
> Fleischmann of the GeoPandas project. He provided a full report to the GDAL
> PSC about his attendance.
>
> * Even coordinated and issued the GDAL 3.7.2 release. Detailed release
> notes about what it included can be found at
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.7.2/NEWS.md
>
> *Even coordinated and issued the libtiff 4.6.0 release. Detailed release
> notes about what it included can be found at
> https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/releases/v4.6.0
>
> * Even spent significant time updating the PDF driver in response to QGIS
> performance scenarios that showed it needed attention. This included
> updating the backend to use Podofo 0.10.
>
> * Even wrote RFC 95 to align GDAL's integer types with typical stdint
> approaches. https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8399 It was decided to
> table implementation until GDAL has its next major (4.0) release. The next
> release, 3.8.0 due this fall, is not intended to be that major release.
>
> * Maintainers had a short discussion about adding something like an
> GDALOpenJSON method to allow applications to provide a single JSON data
> structure for layer and data source options, along with VSI protocol hints
> and (maybe) environment variables. Discussion about such an idea should
> continue in open forums such as the mailing list.
>
> * Alessandro worked on the subdataset API and thought about approaches to
> provide the entire set of option possibilities (paths, open options,
> dataset options, etc), which prompted the GDALOpenJSON discussion above.
>
> * Dan continued working through making all of the GDAL test suite tests
> run independently. That important milestone is almost complete.
>
> * Dan exposed GDALClose to the Python bindings in support of explicit
> destruction of resources for the test suite (rather than hoping __del__
> does it by dropping a reference).
>
> * Dan began working up a Ubuntu 22.04-based CI test container.
>
> Upcoming Events
> ------------------------------------------
>
> * FOSS4GNA 2023 is being held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on October
> 23-25th.
>
> * OSGeo 2023 Community Sprint will be held in Vienna, Austria November
> 6-9th, 2023. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023 GDAL
> PSC members seeking travel support should contact Howard Butler privately
> to coordinate.
>
> Next Meeting
> ------------------------------------------
>
> The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 10/26/2023 at 9:00 EDT. Any PSC
> members are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite.
>
> Howard
>


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Sean Gillies
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