PSC Meeting 2021-02-03

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
    • 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 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