[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Howard Butler]

Howard Butler, Even Rouault Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Norman Barker, Daniel Morissette, Frank Warmerdam, Norman Barker, Michael Sumner, Seth Gervin, Chris Toney and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 03/27/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

Project News
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* Seth Gervin from MapServer and Harrissou Sant-anna from QGIS have been onboarded for sponsored development to enhance GDAL documentation. See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2025-March/060363.html for details
* GDAL 3.10.3 is expected in the next week or so
* GDAL 3.11.0b1 is expected in the middle of April, with final release expected in the first part of May
* Even's GDAL talk has been accepted to FOSS4GE 2025. Learn more about joining him at https://2025.europe.foss4g.org/

Maintenance activities update
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Alessandro

* Continued gdal_contour and 'gdal raster contour'  bug fixing and enhancement
* gdal_rasterize activity
* Investigation and collation of common argument needs across the new CLI.

Dan

* Implemented fully out-of-tree documentation build task based using CMake. A bit more iteration on windows is needed, but it is expected to work on that platform once complete.

* Improve buildvrt to support mosaic of tiles of different resolutions and control resampling scenarios more precisely

* 10+ PR reviews

Even

* Refactor gdal_translate and gdalwarp into 'gdal raster reproject' and 'gdal raster resize' where appropriate
* 'gdal raster reproject'  – bringing over many gdalwarp options
* 'gdal raster astype|scale|unscale' CLI 
* 'gdal vector geometry' CLI implementation of things like settype, geomtype, explode, and makevalid
* port of 'gdalmdiminfo' to new CLI
* GDAL Streamed Algorithm Format Driver https://gdal--11962.org.readthedocs.build/en/11962/drivers/raster/gdalg.html https://gdal--11962.org.readthedocs.build/en/11962/drivers/vector/gdalg.html which allows streaming GDAL algorithms as described by concatenation of streamable operations using the new CLI

Javier

* Implementation and advocacy for an open NTRIP catalog. See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/proj/2025-March/011788.html for details. 

* Javier will also be in Mostar for FOSS4GE. Learn more about joining him at https://2025.europe.foss4g.org/

Chris

* gdalraster R C++ bindings nearing completion 


The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 04/24/2024 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite.

Howard