PSC Meeting 2021-05-11

Participants

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

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• GRASS 7.8.6 and 8.0.0 release
• Sponsoring
• Marketing / presence in social media
• RFC Python version (?)
• FOSS4G GRASS presentations
• GSoC
• ... your suggestions here

Minutes

• GRASS GIS 8 release schedule
  • we are at a very good point
  • lots of conferences upcoming where GRASS GIS 8 will be advertised in talks and demo sessions
  • Martin to provide basic "WinGRASS" instructions on the Wiki, Vero happy to beautify them
  • please update ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8/NewFeatures80
• GRASS GIS 7.8.6 release schedule
  • almost RC1 stage, just the g.extension troubles on Windows to be solved (several PRs pending)
  • advanced draft: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.8.6-News
• Management of addons
  • idea: turn addons into pip-installable packages, change g.extension accordingly
• Reorganizing addons repo
  • idea: change directories to branches (g6, g7, g8), keep main branch only for backward compatibility
  • start with moving GRASS GIS 6 related addons to a separate branch
  • the question is how to maintain G7 and G8 addons in parallel (backport cherry picking, ...)
  • importantly, changes in g.extension are needed
  • Vaclav and Martin will work on that
• Sponsoring
  • Two options: OpenCollective (​https://opencollective.com/) or NUMFocus (​https://numfocus.org/; originally founded by numpy etc).
  • it would be ideal if OSGeo takes the role of being the fiscal host
  • OpenCollective: The OSGeo treasurer has already registered the GRASS GIS project under the hood of OSGeo on OpenCollective:
    • OSGeo would take 5% of donations - perhaps 0% - to be checked by Moritz
    • ​https://opencollective.com/osgeo
    • ​https://opencollective.com/osgeo/projects/grass
    • we need to define the cash flow (which bank account shall be registered: OSGeo US or OSGeo Europe?)
    • the fiscal host defines which means of payment are allowed (Stripe, etc)
    • we need admin access to set our logo and more styling (through the OSGeo treasurer)
  • NUMFocus: an alternative (e.g., GDAL is currently requesting to be hosted there)
• RFC C/C++ version:
  • RFC 7: Language Standards Support: C and C++ Language (Adopted)
• Draft RFC Python version support:
  • RFC 8: Language Standards Support: Python
• Current request on grass-web to make i.segment a stand-alone software
  • could be through conda but that's not complete: packaging is tricky
  • it would be great to reach pip install grass at some point
  • they might better write to grass-dev rather than grass-web
• Marketing / presence in social media
  • postponed to the next meeting
• Upcoming conferences:
  • FOSSGIS GRASS GIS 8 presentation: 50min of demo session
  • FOSS4G GRASS presentations and workshops
• GSoC 2021
  • 3 students have signed up, update coming soon on May 17th, 2021