Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Michael Sumner, Even Rouault, Mike Smith, Norman Barker, Chris Toney, Daniel Morissette and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 08/28/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:
Project News ---------------------------- * Maxar is renewing its Bronze GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks Maxar! * Google is renewing its Silver GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks Google! * Many GDAL team members including Even, Dan, Mike Smith, Seth, Jukka, and Javier will be at the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga Sept 29-Oct 3. See https://www.osgeo.org/events/join-osgeo-community-sprint-2025-at-bids-25-riga-latvia/ for more details. Maintenance activities update ------------------------------------------ Alessandro * PR reviews * 'gdal raster contour' half-pixel issue https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/12938 Dan * Add "gdal vector check-geometry" and "gdal vector check-coverages" command-line utilities to check that vector features have valid/simple geometries and form a valid polygonal coverage (#12880, #12908) * Add "gdal vector clean-coverage" command-line utility to remove gaps and overlaps from a polygon dataset (#12819) * Add "gdal raster as-features" command-line utility to convert raster pixels into tabular features (#12970) * Fix bounding box check in "gdal raster clip" (#12814) * Fix invalid memory access when reading values from a raster attribute table (#12862) * Add Python API documentation for raster attribute tables (#12863), Algorithms (#12987), and Dataset GetExtent methods (#12860) * Improve organization of Python API documentation (#12971) * Fix typos in documentation for pipeline substitutions (#12969) Even * 70+ PRs and tickets * CLI enhancements – skip-errors * Allow 'gdal raster info', 'gdal vector info', and 'gdal raster tile' to be last stages of pipeline * 'gdal vector info --limit' to control output volume * GDALG pipeline CLI substitutions – reuse the same pipeline for inputs and parameters that are substitutable during the CLI call * Security pass to prevent relative filename traversal and injections in all drivers except VRT. There are no known exploits or reports about this, but it seems prudent to prevent. * VSI code linting and unique_ptr usage * 30%+ PNG tile speedup in compression scenarios * Planning to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga Javier * Planning to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga Mike Smith * Planning to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint in Riga Chris Toney * gdalraster R bindings work – added new CLI bindings to R The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 09/25/2025 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to contact me for an invite. Howard _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
