[osgeo4w-dev] OSGeo4W Governance

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Frank,

On Thu, 18. Feb 2010 at 11:39:58 -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> I would suggest at least myself, Jeff McKenna, Jürgen Fischer, and Matt Wilkie
> as members of the PSC.

Thanks for mentioning me.  I'm flattered :)  

> Further, I would suggest we have a category of member which is a packager.
> Packagers should generally have a good degree of autonomy within the packages
> they manage as long as they operate within the guidelines of OSGeo4W.  I
> sincerely wish we had a much more rigerous approach to keeping track of our
> packages, and who the packagers are for those packages.  We have many
> packages in the system without any clear idea of who is responsible for them.

Thanks for not mentioning me, although I feel like you did.

I must admit that I don't create a wiki page for each package I created.  The
ownership of the package files should be a hint for other packagers - but
obviously not for the users.

I'd never really liked the wiki approach and have been pretty lazy about it.
Could we add a packager field to the setup.hint and/or have a defined spot for
a readme and/or changelog in the OSGeo4W tree?  Something that could be
automatically checked and complained about when setup.ini is rebuild?

> At some point we will also have to change some other fundamental components,
> such as the version of Python we deploy.  These are transitions that will be
> difficult to manage.  Instead of treating them piecemeal, it might make sense
> to have a major "version upgrade" every year or two when we essentially build
> all the packages from the ground up.

Probably the most promising approach.  Although that might lead to dropping
packages that are not longer maintained, but in the end that might be a good
thing anyway.


Jürgen

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