PSC Meeting 2021-07-29: Celebrating GRASS 38th birthday

Participants

• Vero Andreo (PSC chair)
• Helena Mitasova
• Anna Petrasova
• Vaclav Petras
• Huidae Cho
• Other devs and members of the community: Soeren Gebbert, Paulo van Breugel, Caitlin Haedrich, Linda Kladivova, Milena, Jeff McKenna

Agenda

The topics proposed were:

• Agree on a fixed date for meetings to avoid the doodle voting, eg. the first Tuesday every 3 months or so
• GRASS 7.8.6 release: once g.extension fix is backported, are we ready?
• GRASS 8 release: what is the status? can we have it out before FOSS4G?
• GSoC status
• Sponsoring: we received 2k € from ​https://bhinc.com/, send thank you email to lists, communicate that we have opencollective
• Presence in social media: create weekly content, show GSoC progress, new addons
• RFC Python version: nothing changed from previous meeting
• AGM
• ...

Minutes

• Fix a day for quarterly PSC meetings to avoid sending a doodle every time
  • Since we were few PSC members, we decided to send out the last doodle or email by september with options to set a fixed day and time from now on
• GRASS GIS 8 release schedule
  • we are at almost there: g.extension, t.remove, r.in.pdal, simplify band reference management changes are merged.
  • we discussed new splash screen; Vero and Vaclav exchanged SVGs to try out other options combining their attempts in ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/1716
  • temporal framework backward compatibility it is a draft PR (​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1454), we have t.upgrade and t.downgrade for the meantime
  • ctypesgen PR remains to be solved and merged (​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1651)
  • integrate band reference into signatures seems to be ready to be merged too (​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1501)
• GRASS GIS 7.8.6 release schedule
  • with the g.extension fix being merged, we are ready for a RC1 stage
  • we need to clarify what needs to be done on the server side regarding new addon's repository structure, so new addons appear online here: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/manuals/addons/
• Sponsoring
  • OpenCollective:
    • It is in place (​https://opencollective.com/osgeo/projects/grass) and we were granted admin rights to configure style
    • However, it seems it does not accept PayPal, possibilities are only bank transfer or credit card
    • Helena will ask the board if that is something that can be configured by OSGeo since they are the fiscal host
  • Donations:
    • We have received ~2K euro from ​https://bhinc.com/
    • It was suggested to send a "thank you" email around to all sponsors and donors, while using the chance to promote the OpenCollective account
    • Once the email is out, this might be a new item to promote in social media
• Presence in social media
  • create weekly content for twitter especially
  • upcoming threads will cover GSoC projects, new addon by Paulo van Breugel, FOSS4G presentations and workshops
  • Vero will prepare these
• Website
  • Launched one year ago, and we still do not have a search engine
  • Nicolas Bozon does not answer emails
• AGM at FOSS4G 2021
  • While in the meeting, the GRASS slide received new content: ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1brbBb7-sKRI6U4dZ7LKnBT_-NnWzyS2TaZqVXzy8RDo/edit#slide=id.g233aae6a05_0_0
  • Vero will record the 1 minute video
  • she will ask for new screenshots and resources from GRASS community
• Binder button in PR and commits to increase testing by the community
  • Vaclav will investigate further, especially regarding hitting limits in GitHub
  • Avoid it for only manual pages changes or yaml files and such
• GRASS green color
  • We have 4 different GRASS green colors:
    • ​https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo: official color defined as RGB 0,144,0 for v7.0
    • old website according to the wiki: RGB 0,138,40
    • new website grass green: RGB 8,139,54
    • download logo from new website and check green definition: RGB 11,139,54
  • Going forward: Use the website version (tentatively decided during the meeting, but it turned out there are still 2 greens there: website and download).
• RFC about Python version
  • we did not discussed this