This page contains the agenda of the GRASS Project Steering Commitee.

Open issues

• grass-dev: elect new core developers (define some criteria on the way)
  • e.g., must have at least one accepted/reviewed pull request
• define long term support, which GRASS GIS versions? (see discussion ​here)
• RFC 5: GRASS GIS Errata (Draft)
• Revisit PSC renewal procedures
  • compare for example terms of the ​Geoserver PSC, especially regarding
    • Future PSC members
    • Dissolution of PSC
• PSC: assign roles to the PSC members
  • see PSC/Roles
• Marketing campaign

Open Motions

These entries need a vote from the committee members.

• RFC 4: Release Procedure
• RFC 5: GRASS GIS Errata (Draft)

Discussions

These entries do not need a formal vote.

• License issues of translation support through ​Rosetta - alternatively consider ​pootle (maybe on OSGeo infrastructure)
• discuss use of transifex for some languages
  • We use transifex since 2017: ​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/

Resolved issues and motions

Motions

• PSC Motions

Discussions

• To enable or not to enable GitHub Discussions as an additional channel (see discussion ​here)
• GitHub repos: renaming of our 'master' branch to a less insensitive name as 'main'. See ​https://github.com/github/renaming
• Solved for Election 2020: Revisit PSC election procedure
  • add a candidate campaign period between nomination and voting: candidates should express what they plan to do if elected
• GRASS on koders.com: recommendation to do so. Now available ​here
• Add GRASS to Canonical's Rosetta translation project?
  Unresolved issue: a translation is a derivative and non-original work, and Canonical demands BSD-style copyright assignment of translations submitted through them (but not translations coming from the project). Could a translation back to english from one of those be a end-run around our copyright and the GPL?
  Update 2007: It appears that Canonical changed their ​Terms of use of Rosetta