PSC Meeting 2024-02-09

Participants

• TBD

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Review ​past minutes and action points
• PSC elections. See ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2023-December/002780.html
• 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
• 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
• 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