[pgrouting-dev] Get organized and building our community

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi PSC,

This is a role call!
Who is still on the list?
Are you still interested in being involved?

Since Anton has moved on and said he will no longer be working on 
pgRouting, I take this as a resignation form the PSC also. This means we 
need to elect an chair for the PSC.

Daniel, I thought you were on the PSC!

-Steve

On 2/4/2012 12:27 AM, Daniel Kastl wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Give me some more time to answer your email in detail. I won't forget
> about it.
> Well, I also hope to hear opinions and comments from others.
>
> I would actually like to know, who of the current PSC is still following
> pgRouting:
> http://www.pgrouting.org/development.html#project-steering-committe
>
> I think it's important that we have at least active PSC members.
> Active doesn't have to mean writing source code of course. Just a
> comment on the list from time to time, and maybe an answer to this email
> would be great ;-)
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     The recent up tick in list activity, code development, and interest
>     that people have expressed toward getting involved is very exciting
>     and has made be realize the we need more organization and some kind
>     of plan on how to move forward. The PSC discussed this about a year
>     ago, but we never got any critical mass and we had only one
>     developer at the time that has since left to work on other projects.
>
>     I happen to be on the Mapserver PSC and this is an excellent model
>     for us to follow. I will will look at taking the Mapserver PSC
>     process and see about editing that to be appropriate for pgRouting
>     and circulate it for comment and eventually a vote.
>
>     We already have a lot of documentation, wiki, git source
>     respository, bug tracking in place.
>
>     Daniel - When you have a chance please post a summary with links to
>     the various assets.
>
>     The areas where we need work (in no particular order) are:
>
>     o test suite and automated testing (I recommend we look at what
>     postGIS is using)
>
>     o we have 2-4 part-time developers that are interest in work, so
>     coordination these efforts will be key.
>
>     o we have bugs and issues that need to be tracked down and fixed
>
>     o we need to review and rewrite the plpgsql wrappers to be schema
>     aware and standardize the APIs
>
>     o we can always use more examples, and tutorials and the existing
>     examples and tutorials may need to be updated to the newer versions
>     of postgresql, postgis, and pgrouting
>
>     o and we really need to look into make a new release.
>
>     o I would like to get our documentation into something like
>     restructured text and under version control so it is easy update the
>     website and maintain documentation as it is reflected in the code
>
>     o if there are people that are interested in translating
>     documentation to local languages then we can look into setting up a
>     way to manage that also.
>
>     o I'm sure there are other things, so please add them to the list
>     and I will summarize them on a wiki page.
>
>     A lot of this stuff is researching and setting up a system and
>     infrastructure to support it. After that we need to maintain it as
>     we make changes to the code, but this should be minimal incremental
>     effort once the infrastructure is in place.
>
>     If you want to contribute, please let us know. In the meanwhile, we
>     will try to move forward with this. I know both Daniel and I are
>     busy working on the jobs that pay the bills, but I think we can both
>     find enough time to get some of this organized and support anyone
>     that has some time to contribute.
>
>     Best regards,
>       -Steve
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