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Meeting Info

The third meeting of the FDO PSC took take place Wednesday September 26th Face-2-Face at FOSS4G.

Meeting Chair: Greg Boone

Universal Time: ​http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=26&year=2007&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=256

Location: OSGeo Booth at FOSS4G2007

Agenda

• Incubation
• Autogenerated Documentation
• Linux Build issues
• Adding New Committers
• Client Application Library (CAL)
• Getting one site (trac?) for FDO instead of two.
• Reporting download statics
• Adding Futures Page to FDO Wiki
• Improving FDO Documentation
• Improving FDO Web Site Content

Notes

• Incubation
  • Discussed and reviewed sponsor requirements
    • Show that the PSC is operating and in charge
    • Hold Regular PSC Meetings
    • Update FDO Provenance Review
    • Review and publish the updated Contributor Agreement document
    • Update FDO Incubation Status Page
    • Mateusz and Harris are required to sign a CLA
    • Clarify that MapGuide and FDO share coding standards
  • Have PSC setup a uniform release cycle for FDO
  • Get the OGR, King and PostGIS providers into the build process
• Autogenerated Documentation
  • Remove Autogenerated documentation from FDO SVN
  • Generate documentation on server or upload zip file per release per release
• Linux Build issues
  • FDO Linux install needs to support customizable install locations
  • FDO build needs to be able to support customizable Thirdparty software locations
• Adding New Committers
  • Greg to send out email requesting new FDO committers to be added
  • Greg to ping Frank on mechanism to add new committers
• Client Application Library (CAL)
  • Start discussion on fdo-internals mailing list
    • Create a Wiki Page for this topic
    • Describe 'What it is'
      • Leveling Library
      • Capabilities
      • Projecttions
      • Connection Pooling
      • Joins
      • Expression Engine
      • Security Layer
  • Where does it fit in, in relation to FDO/MapGuide
• Getting one site (trac?) for FDO instead of two.
  • CSS work required to get Trac a little more friendly
  • Rework the menu structure
  • Need to move content from Drupal
  • Need to change fdo.osgeo.org in order to redirect to users to trac.osgeo.org
• Reporting download statics
  • Would be nice to have an easier way to get the stats
  • How to get accurate stats for downloads?
    • Per SDK?
    • Per Provider?
• Adding Futures Page to FDO Wiki
  • Greg to start process and upload exisiting documents from Autodesk
• Improving FDO Documentation
  • Need to have a 'How to write a provider' document
  • Find a simple example to use
  • Frank to start on this. Use comma separated text format as an example
  • It would be nice to have a testing suite for new FDO providers
    • Certification program?
• Improving FDO Web Site Content
  • The FDO community should be profiling applications using FDO
    • FME
    • OneSpatial
    • MapGuide
    • Autodesk