Thank you, Howard for reminding sponsors how important their support is! On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 9:14 AM Howard Butler via gdal-dev < gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, and Alessandro Pasotti held the > monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 09/28/2023. The following items were > discussed and reported upon: > > Fundraising update > ---------------------------- > > Good news on fundraising: Amazon Web Services, who had previously > announced they were not going to be able to renew their Gold level > sponsorship for 2024, was able to reverse the decision and continue > sponsoring GDAL at the same level for the next year. > > Also Maxar, who had previously announced they were not going to be able to > renew their Gold level for 2024, was able to reverse the decision and > continue sponsoring GDAL for the next year the Bronze level. > > Thanks again to the advocates within both of these organizations for > continuing to push for resources despite being told 'no'. We still have a > number of renewals to complete before we are done for the cycle this year. > > Maintenance activities update > ------------------------------------------ > > * Even attended the NumFOCUS Project Summit September 11-13th in > Amsterdam. https://www.summit.numfocus.org/ where he gave a lightning > talk about GDAL's extensive CI system > http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/presentations/NumFocus%20Summit%202023%20Tour%20of%20tools%20used%20by%20GDAL%20CI%2C%20testing%20and%20documentation.pdf > and discussed Arrow topics with Joris Van den Bossche and Martin > Fleischmann of the GeoPandas project. He provided a full report to the GDAL > PSC about his attendance. > > * Even coordinated and issued the GDAL 3.7.2 release. Detailed release > notes about what it included can be found at > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.7.2/NEWS.md > > *Even coordinated and issued the libtiff 4.6.0 release. Detailed release > notes about what it included can be found at > https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/releases/v4.6.0 > > * Even spent significant time updating the PDF driver in response to QGIS > performance scenarios that showed it needed attention. This included > updating the backend to use Podofo 0.10. > > * Even wrote RFC 95 to align GDAL's integer types with typical stdint > approaches. https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8399 It was decided to > table implementation until GDAL has its next major (4.0) release. The next > release, 3.8.0 due this fall, is not intended to be that major release. > > * Maintainers had a short discussion about adding something like an > GDALOpenJSON method to allow applications to provide a single JSON data > structure for layer and data source options, along with VSI protocol hints > and (maybe) environment variables. Discussion about such an idea should > continue in open forums such as the mailing list. > > * Alessandro worked on the subdataset API and thought about approaches to > provide the entire set of option possibilities (paths, open options, > dataset options, etc), which prompted the GDALOpenJSON discussion above. > > * Dan continued working through making all of the GDAL test suite tests > run independently. That important milestone is almost complete. > > * Dan exposed GDALClose to the Python bindings in support of explicit > destruction of resources for the test suite (rather than hoping __del__ > does it by dropping a reference). > > * Dan began working up a Ubuntu 22.04-based CI test container. > > Upcoming Events > ------------------------------------------ > > * FOSS4GNA 2023 is being held in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on October > 23-25th. > > * OSGeo 2023 Community Sprint will be held in Vienna, Austria November > 6-9th, 2023. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023 GDAL > PSC members seeking travel support should contact Howard Butler privately > to coordinate. > > Next Meeting > ------------------------------------------ > > The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 10/26/2023 at 9:00 EDT. Any PSC > members are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite. > > Howard > -- Sean Gillies
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