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= PSC Meeting 2021-02-03 =

== Participants ==

* Vero Andreo (PSC chair)
* Helena Mitasova
* Martin Landa
* Anna Petrasova
* Vaclav Petras
* Moritz Lennert (minutes)
* Michael Barton
* Huidae Cho
* Markus Neteler


== Election debrief ==
* List of voters
  * All contributers
  * + (for next elections) users who answered questions on list/stackexchange
    * define threshold of number of posts
  * Organize a hackfest before the elections to invite power users to contribute
  * How to avoid duplicates ?
    * Warn future CRO about duplicates
    * Merge all lists into one, sort by emails and delete duplicates
      * Then ask voters to check
    * List of voters of 2020 will be stored in OSGeo Nextcloud (see "Misc" below for client settings)
    * **Action point: give access to new PSC members**

* Length of mandates: Staggered mandates to ensure continuity ?
  * **Decision: mandates of 6 years with 1/2 elected every 3 years**
    * Seats up at for next elections (i.e. only 3 year mandate):
      * Moritz
      * Martin
      * Helena
      * Michael
  * How to handle resignations ?
    * **Decision: Replace by the first on the "waiting list" (list of people standing for elections, but not elected, ranked by number of votes)**

== PSC roles & tasks (for 3 years) ==
    * Chairperson - Vero
    * Treasurer - Moritz
    * Release manager - Markus, Martin
    * Infrastructure manager - Markus
    * Translation manager - Huidae
    * Website & Marketing manager - Michael, Vero
    * Github manager - Vaclav

== Do we need a mission statement of the GRASS GIS project ?
   * Make internalized approach and philosophy more explicit
   * Express/define what GRASS GIS' (target) audience is
   * **Decision: Michael will provide [wiki:Mission a first proposal] on the wiki**

== How do decide on minimum requirements for programming languages (from grass-dev: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2021-January/094899.html)
    * Which platforms should we support ?
      * Proposal: GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, MS Windows, OSX
    * Python
      * Issue is more with Python libraries than the core Python
      * target: 3.7 (3.6 end of life at end of 2020)
    * **Decision: Ask devs discussing the issue to write RFC**

== Proposal: Use of RFCs for fundamental changes in the code ==
   * RFCs
     * are very visible
     * clearly mark the discussion as more important than a standard PR/Issue
     * make rationals explicit and easily retrievable
   * See https://gdal.org/development/rfc/index.html as example
   * Where to post them ?
     * Trac wiki
     * Github wiki
     * Github repository
   * To be discussed further
     * Use discussion on programming language versions (above) as test case
   
== PSC meeting frequency ==
    * **Decision: one meeting / trimestre**

== Misc ==

Nextcloud offers a convenient client (https://nextcloud.com/clients/)

- login name : your OSGeo user-ID login (https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/osgeo_userid/)
- password: you know it
- instance: https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/

Here the folder(s) to sync:

[[Image(nextcloud_osgeo_client_settings.png)]]

''Example for nextcloud client settings for PSC''

Then find the files on your disc in the nextcloud folder which you defined during setup.