[MapProxy] MapProxy PSC

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi all,

there is now a -dev list. Please subscribe to this list if you are interested in the development of MapProxy.
This list open to everyone, not only for PSC members (candidates).

https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapproxy-dev


Regards,
Oliver

-- 
Oliver Tonnhofer  | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG  | https://omniscale.com
OpenStreetMap WMS and tile services         | https://maps.omniscale.com



> On 3. Apr 2020, at 14:57, Oliver Tonnhofer <olt at omniscale.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I hope you are all doing fine in this difficult time.
> 
> I'd like to share a few information about the MapProxy project and its future.
> 
> You all might have noticed that my responses on this lists became rare, and
> that the development of new futures slowed down. This is related to how the
> business changed for our company Omniscale in the last few years and it is now
> clear for us, that we won't continue to work on MapProxy in the future.
> 
> However, MapProxy is far from dead. It is in use all around the world and not
> only by end-users, but also by companies that have long term business interest
> in MapProxy.
> 
> I think that being the single vendor of MapProxy hindered other developers from
> becoming more active in the past. We like to change this in the coming weeks
> and months.
> 
> Right now we have a few developers that are working on improving the dimension
> support in MapProxy. We also talked to a few companies that would love to
> become more active in the development of MapProxy. So I'm confident that we can
> build an active developer community.
> 
> I want to bring this forward by building a formal foundation for MapProxy aka
> Project Steering Committee (PSC), similar to a lot of other open source
> projects.
> 
> You can read the PSC guidelines of OpenLayers and MapServer as an example:
> - https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/wiki/Steering-Committee
> - https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html
> 
> I will ask a few users and developers off-list in the next week if they are
> interested in becoming a member of the PSC. Please feel free to e-mail me if
> you are also interested or if you want to nominate someone. I think we should
> start with 5-10 members.
> 
> Please also let me know if you have any comments about the PSC in general and
> the PSC guidelines.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> 
> -- 
> Oliver Tonnhofer  | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG  | https://omniscale.com
> OpenStreetMap WMS and tile services         | https://maps.omniscale.com
> 
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