PSC Meeting 2024-02-09

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Vaclav Petras
• Helmut Kudrnovsky
• Markus Neteler
• Helena Mitasova
• Huidae Cho
• Michael Barton
• Martin Landa
• Veronica Andreo

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Review ​past minutes and action points
• PSC elections in 2024
  • See ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2023-December/002780.html
  • Discussion and decisions from Feb 2021: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Minutes/PSC_Meeting_20210203#Electiondebrief
• GSoC 2024
• Student grant
  • Linda
• Budget
  • Treasurer changed. Thanks Markus and Vaclav!
  • Budget was submitted in Dec 2023.
  • State of budget tracking: see ​Vicky Vergara's OSGeo board candidate manifesto
• Future events
  • FOSSGIS, 20-23 March (​https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2024/)
  • Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC), 9-11 April (​https://www.tngic.org/annual-conference-2024-)
  • FOSS4G Europe, 01-07 July (​https://2024.europe.foss4g.org/)
  • useR! — International R User Conference, 8-11 July (​https://user2024.r-project.org/)
  • Next GRASS GIS virtual and in person sprint
    • Budget request for OSGeo contribution submitted in Dec 2023
    • Around FOSS4G Europe?
• Releases
  • 8.3.2 RC cycle started
  • 8.4.0 planned for April (how about anticipating this a bit?)
• Access rights reformed on GitHub (Vaclav)
  • Unified structure for teams with write and triage access
    • Historical Subversion committers now have triage access (not write)
    • Current teams are grass-write, grass-addons-write, grass-website-write, grass-promo-write, grass-maintain, grass-admin, grass-triage, grass-discussion-moderators (​list of teams)
• PR procedures updated (Vaclav)
  • At least one review from a person with write access required
    • anyone can still leave reviews which can be taken into account by the reviewer with write access
    • discussions which have a Resolve button need to be resolved
  • A button to easily update the the PR branch from main (merge or rebase)
  • A button to enable automatic merging of PR once reviews are done and checks passed (aka auto-merge)
• Status of open PRs - Martin?
  • Issue: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/3235 (Set up rules for managing PRs)
  • Proposal: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/discussions/3396
  • Related discussion: ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/discussions/3364
• Documentation:
  • manual: how to continue with Markdown support (Martin?)
• POSE project
  • state and what's next
• Renaming Location to Project
  • ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2023-December/083478.html
• grasswiki authentication
  • ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2966 (waiting for Robe)
• potential Discourse migration
  • See thread: ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2023-December/040016.html
• Changes in mailman configurations
  • currently stopped as too invasive, see osgeo-discuss list in Jan 2024
• Linux Professional Institute invitation. See: ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-web/2024-January/005154.html
  • MN is in contact
• Inquiry on Partnership for FOSS4G
• Pending RFCs and RFC procedure

Minutes

• Edouard Choniere, new core contributor and github maintainer, joined the meeting and introduced himself to PSC. Welcome @echoix!

• Past minutes action points:
  • VP spoke to Michael Smith and opencollective profile is fixed
  • A PSC motion and request is needed so OSGeo treasurer adds OSGeo credit card to weblate, MN's personal card is beeing used now.
  • Motion: Ask OSGeo to put their credit card on weblate instead of MN's personal one.
    • motion passed (8/9)

• PSC elections:
  • We'll do the elections in the fall so we have a chance to discuss and decide on topics raised by Hernan in ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2023-December/002780.html.
  • Action: Vero will write Hernán about this.

• GSoC 2024:
  • Anna created the ideas page and submitted it: ​https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GSoC_Ideas_2024
  • Luca mentioned he cannot edit the grasswiki (solution: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2966)
    • Action: MN takes care about LDAP migration. We then set admin permissions manually.
  • Huidae has a potential candidate.
  • We all promote GRASS topics once OSGeo is approved as an organization.

• Budget
  • Not clear if OSGeo will approve our request yet, apparently they'll give only 3k per project. We requested 5k for the project and 5k from the sprint funds for a community meeting.

• Student grants:
  • Anna suggested to remove deadlines to apply and keep the call open instead, suggesting a desired timing or dates when PSC will assess the proposals.
  • Linda's work on the history pane is going very well.

• Events
  • Who goes where?
    • FOSSGIS.de March 2024 in Hamburg (MN)
    • TNGIC April (Vero-Caitlin)
    • FOSS4G-Europe July 2024 in Tartu (Vero)
    • FOSS4G World in Brazil (Vero?)
  • Community meeting date:
    • Second half of June or second half of July; suggested dates: 14/06 until 19/06, 21/06 until 26/06, or 12/07 until 17/07.
    • Martin will check with CTU again, but we can anyway try to search/think of other places. NCSU place in Prague seems not available/difficult to get (?).
    • We'll continue discussions and definitions via email.