[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Howard Butler]

The monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 07/24/2025 was canceled due to holiday season. The following items were reported via email:

Project News
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* 2025 GDAL Sponsorship Program fundraising continues to be frustrating. If you are following a large cloud's tutorial about how to use VSI to access their object store, you might ask your sales rep about why they no longer see strategic benefit to financially supporting GDAL and its core dependencies like PROJ, GEOS, Sphinx, and more which make such an approach conveniently possible.

Maintenance activities update
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Alessandro

* PR reviews
* GML issues https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/12769 https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/12770

Seth

* OSM examples https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/12733
* DTM tutorial https://gdal--12792.org.readthedocs.build/en/12792/tutorials/raster_dtm_tut.html

Dan

* Complete new interruption API for GEOS
* Begin integration of GEOS coverage validity testing and repair into GDAL
* Add BlockWindows iterator to Python bindings

Even

* GDAL 3.11.1 finalization, and 3.11.2 and 3.11.3 releases
* C/C++/Python band algebra: add gdal.abs(), sqrt(), log(), log10() and pow()
* PROJ: EPSG v12.014 and v12.015 updates
* gdal_minmax_element.hpp: add support for GDT_Float16 and GDT_Int64/UInt64
* Pull request reviews
* enhancements in gdal raster tile: fork mode, faster PNG tile generation
* ~ 50 bugfixes
* FOSS4GE 2025 participation. Slides at https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/presentations/State%20of%20GDAL%20%28FOSS4G-E%202025%29.pdf  From discussions there, lots of enthusiasm for the new CLI

Javier

* Presented at FOSS4GE 2025!


The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 08/28/2025 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to contact me for an invite.

Howard