[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Howard Butler]

Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Michael Sumner, Even Rouault, and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 11/27/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

# Project News

* [Planet](https://www.planet.com/) has renewed as a Gold sponsor for 2026. Thanks again Planet for your continued support of the GDAL Sponsorship Program! 
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* RHEL 10.1 now includes GDAL packages with a limited set of drivers

# Maintenance activities update

## Alessandro

* PR review activity
* `gdal raster resize` – support for ratio-preservation by setting height or width as `0` https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13442 

## Dan

* PR reviews
* Attended FOSS4GNA 2025 and recorded the Status of GDAL which is expected to be online soon
* added `gdal vector sort` https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13351 with hillbert or strtree
* added grid subdivision algorithm to GEOS https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1232

## Even

* GDAL 3.12.0 "Chicoutimi" release https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/tag/v3.12.0 
* GDAL 3.11.5 release https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/tag/v3.11.5 
* 80+ PRs and tickets
* 5 EPSG updates – fallout and churn from ETR89 activities in EU
* geometry field support for gdal vector partition https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13388
* South-up support for GTI driver
* `gdal vector update` – port of the ogrupdate.py script to new CLI https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13412  
* STAC GeoParquet profile for GDAL gdal raster tileindex output https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13431 
* LLVM-based JIT for raster expressions (RFC 110) https://gdal--13466.org.readthedocs.build/en/13466/development/rfc/rfc110_jit_compilation.html 


## Javier

* Working to support `projinfo` as a library function with a callback for WASM and browser execution.

# Next Meeting

The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is canceled due to it occurring on Christmas Day. Maintainers will provide text bullet status updates for the month of December and they will be collated into minutes. The January GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 01/22/2026 at 13:00 UTC. Project contributors should contact Howard Butler for an invite.

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