[gdal-dev] GDAL Maintainers Meeting Minutes

[Howard Butler]

Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Michael Sumner, Even Rouault, Mike Smith, Chris Toney, and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 10/23/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

Project News
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Maintenance activities update
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Alessandro

* PR review activity

Dan

* gdal raster zonal-stats CLI finalization https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_raster_zonal_stats.html 
* gdal vector make-point https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_make_point.html 
* Riga sprint work with Seth Girvin on SWIG function signature documentation and graphics for docs
* FOSS4GNA presentation preparation. See him this week in Reston, VA! https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-na-2025/talk/FLUEPT/ 

Even

* GDAL 3.12.0b1 release. See upcoming release notes at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.12.0beta1/NEWS.md 
* 60+ PRs and tickets
* GDAL 3.11.5 release preparation 
* gdal raster mdim mosaic https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_mdim_mosaic.html 
* Collaborated with Ognyan Moore of Hobu, Inc. in Riga to automate GDAL (and PROJ) release artifact generation process with GitHub Actions. Features include GitHub Attestations, GPG signing, container build array population at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pkgs/container/gdal, and container metadata pass-through
* RAT storage in GeoTIFFs https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13201 
* PROJ EPSG updates to v12.033, v12.036, and v12.039
* Zarr summit participation, including defining and implementing geo definitions prototype for GDAL https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13215 

Javier

* Riga attendance 

The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 11/27/2025 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to contact me for an invite.

Howard

https://gist.github.com/hobu/3193be3a8027d24d987d42e7eeb432fc