[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 09/25/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:

Project News
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* NASA is renewing its Gold GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks again NASA!
* Safe Software is renewing its Silver GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks again Safe!
* LINZ is renewing its Bronze GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks again LINZ!
* Howard is working to get a new GDAL tshirt design available through the NumFOCUS Spreadshirt shop. Look for an announcement in the next month or so.

Maintenance activities update
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Alessandro

* 40+ PR reviews
* 'gdal vector change-field-type' https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13086

Dan

* Code example testing – using CI to verify and compile examples to preserve them
* 'gdal raster zonal-stats` https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13059 

Even

* 70+ PRs and tickets
* GDAL 3.11.4, libtiff 4.7.1, openjpeg 2.5.4, and shapelib 1.6.2 releases
* RFC 109 – splitting headers https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc109_gdal_cpp_api.html 
* CLI pipeline materialize https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13051 
* Renamed 'gdal raster color-merge' to 'gdal raster blend' https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13114 
* Added 'gdal raster neighbors' for focal statistics https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13088 
* convolution for 'gdal raster calc' https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13083 
* Add 'gdal vector partition' https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13015 
* EPSG update for PROJ 9.7.0 release



The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 10/23/2025 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to contact me for an invite.

Howard

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