[geos-devel] GEOS Maintenance Grant

[Martin Davis]

As for testing, there is this GEOS issue recommending creating more C API
tests:  https://github.com/libgeos/geos/issues/396

:)

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 1:20 PM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> Dear GEOS PSC,
>
> Great to hear about a grant to help the project along.
>
> My feedback is to make sure that the funds are spread around, not just
> to one developer, but also to the (even more critical) parts of software
> projects that never receive funding, yet are so important to end-users:
> documentation, testing, and packaging.
>
> I know it is 2022, and we have so many corporate influences in FOSS4G
> that it's hard to see through the activity/smoke, but, we should always
> try to make sure that the funds are spread around to as many parts of
> the project as possible.  For example, 50k USD could be shared by the
> GEOS PSC as:
>
>    - 25k development
>    - 10k documentation
>    - 10k packaging
>    -  5k testing and releases
>
> That is a fair plan for actual project "maintenance". QGIS.ORG (the
> registered entity behind QGIS) & the QGIS PSC does an excellent job at
> spreading the funding around to all parts of the project, which creates
> a "product" feeling to QGIS (a well-rounded result).
>
> My rule of thumb, is that for every 1 hour of development in a software
> project spent, it should take approximately 8 hours of further testing,
> documentation, and packaging by others, if done properly. (instead of
> one funded developer doing an hour of development, and squeezing in a
> few minutes of docs often by the same developer).
>
> I hope my feedback can be received well by the GEOS PSC, and they could
> keep this feedback in mind the next time funding comes along.
>
> Thanks, sent from the east coast of Canada,
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
> co-founder of FOSS4G
> http://gatewaygeo.com/
>
>
>
> On 2022-02-15 11:37 a.m., Howard Butler wrote:
> > GDAL PSC,
> >
> > When we wrote the GDAL RFCs on sponsorship, we provided an escape clause
> to allow us to direct resources to other projects upon which GDAL depends.
> Our sponsorship numbers are still increasing, which provides us an
> opportunity to directly support some of those projects, and one of them is
> obviously GEOS. GEOS provides all of the geometry algebra support for
> GDAL/OGR and many other open source geospatial softwares including Shapely,
> PostGIS, GeoPandas, MapServer, and more.
> >
> > Dan Baston of the GEOS PSC has been identified as the developer with
> capacity and interest in the next year to take on GEOS development on APIs
> and performance, which he has a long history of doing for the project. This
> support should allow him to work longer, multi-release upgrades that will
> provide strong performance and convenience benefits for the project.
> >
> > I motion to provide the GEOS PSC with a $50,000 USD grant to address
> performance, API, and other work that does not attract directed funding in
> GEOS. The GEOS PSC will be responsible for coordinating work tasks, rates,
> and development timelines. Howard Butler or Even Rouault of the GDAL
> NumFocus liaison team will coordinate dispersement as directed by the GEOS
> PSC and NumFocus rules.
> >
> > Thank you again to the GDAL Sponsors
> https://gdal.org/sponsors/index.html who have made this kind of grant
> possible. A better GEOS makes for a better GDAL.
> >
> > Howard
> >
>
>
>
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