Changes between Version 22 and Version 23 of PSC

Timestamp:

05/14/16 08:26:15 (9 years ago)

Author:

neteler

Comment:

moved 2006 historical notes into own page

PSC

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  * [wiki:PSC/Election2016 Election 2016] (in preparation)
  * [wiki:PSC/Election2012 Election 2012] (completed in Nov. 2012)
- * PSC created in 2006
+ * [wiki:PSC/Creation2006 PSC created in 2006]
+
 == Former members ==
 
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 See also [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Team GRASS team page].
-
-== Historical Notes ==
-
-=== 1st Letter to GRASS mailing lists ===
-
-{{{
-                                     02/10/2006 06:15 PM
-Dear GRASS community,
-
-in the Chicago meeting the GRASS project was suggested to
-as one of the initial OSGeo foundation projects.
-
-So far I only received positive feedback on the idea of
-moving GRASS more formally to the foundation (while the
-individual authors are keeping their copyright which is
-a major difference to the Apache Foundation.)
-
-A couple of things will have to be sorted out in the
-coming months to make GRASS's membership possible (below
-list is inspired by Frank's mail to the GRASS project):
-
-o We will need to form a "GRASS Project Steering Committee"
-  (PSC). Foundation projects need a formalized management
-  which may be desired in any case. I would be glad to 
-  receive suggestions of names for this committee. For
-  inspiration, please look at the MapServer Technical
-  Steering Committee as described here:
-
-    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1
-
-o One benefit of the foundation is some degree of legal
-   support and protection for the project. The flip side of that
-   is that the foundation needs to ensure some degree of
-   rigor and process in how code comes into the project. One
-   part of that is getting committers to sign a legal agreement
-   indicating that they agree that changes they commit will
-   be under the license of GRASS (GPL) and that they have 
-   the right to submit the code (they wrote it, it is not
-   patented, have permission from their employer, etc).
-
-o We will have to review the existing code base (which is
-   huge - more than 500000 lines of source code in GRASS 6).
-   Luckily a major code review was already done for GRASS 5.
-   Also the "Debianization" process was performed for GRASS
-   5 and GRASS 6.
-
-o It is suggested to move the support infrastructure for GRASS
-   to new foundation systems. Stuff like CVS (maybe SVN then),
-   and bugtracker and mailing lists. The web site will also
-   likely appear under a foundation subdomain (ie. grass.osgeo.org)
-   with hopefully the known mirror site structure as before
-   with grass.itc.it, grass.ibiblio.org etc as principal mirror
-   sites. If so, the web site will be migrated into a contents
-   management system (CMS) in a harmonized "foundation style".
-   A CMS will hopefully solve the problem to get more people
-   involved in the Web site contents management.
-
-o We hope to establish options to enable sponorship for the
-   foundation - be as direct funding or for selected foundation
-   projects. Details have to be worked out. My suggestion is to 
-   create national tax-exempt organizations (such as the
-   German GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. which already exists)
-   which may offer to receive donations.
-
-o For now we should think about nominating people with
-   recognized contribution to the GRASS project, to
-   free data, to whatever deems significant. A small paragraph
-   describing why the candidate is proposed as member to
-   the foundation is needed as well. This will be announced
-   more formally soon. Please see ongoing discussions here:
-   http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
-
-(Nearly) nothing is set in stone yet.
-More details will follow, a couple of official documents
-are being currently prepared
-
-Your feedback is welcome.
-
-Markus
-}}}
-
-
-=== 2nd Letter to GRASS mailing lists ===
-
-{{{
-                                        02/11/2006 12:16 AM
-Dear all,
-
-while I already received two suggestions for a GRASS 
-Project Steering Committee (PSC), I suggest to post the
-nominations in public, if there are no objections.
-I would like to have that transparent to everyone.
-
-Nominations should contain the name and a short paragraph
-why it is a good candidate. We also have to decide,
-how many members the PSC should have.
-
-It is worth reading
-- http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
-   (they are very successful, and the document applies much
-    to the GRASS project culture)
-
-- http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1/
-   (MS RFC 1: Technical Steering Committee Guidelines)  
-    apparently 7 members there.
-
-- http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2006-February/thread.html#7881
-    (GDAL PSC to be formed)
-
-- http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-10/
-   (MS RFC 10: Joining the Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
-
-Related:
-- https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9682788&forum_id=475
-  (Community MapBuilder PMC membership nomination)
-- https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9673493&forum_id=475
-  (MapBuilder & Mapbender and the OSGeo Foundation)
-
-In fact, there is lot of material to digest in these days..
-
-Markus
-}}}
-
-=== 3rd Letter to GRASS Dev mailing list ===
-
-{{{
-Markus Neteler  neteler at itc.it Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:10:25 +0200
-
-On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:00:01PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
-...
-> Alpha support in the current display architecture isn't going to
-> happen (I reverted the last attempt to add it, and will do likewise in
-> future).
-
-... this is why I really suggest to get interested in a project
-steering committee [1], [2].
-
-Instead of recursively reverted changes of other developers,
-we should come up with a design discussion and then *vote* on it.
-At least for such crucidal pieces of the code I would like to 
-see less anarchy and a more formal approach. This will render
-development more transparent to everybody. The scope cannot be to
-have two display management systems in parallel, one without
-and one with alpha support.
-
-Existing steering committees, to get inspired from:
- Mapserver: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-1
- GDAL:      http://www.gdal.org/rfc1_pmc.html
- Mapbender: http://www.mapbender.org/index.php/Mapbender_PSC
- ...
-
-Please think about it!
-
-Thanks
-
- Markus
-
-[1] http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-February/021178.html
-[2] http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2006-April/022185.html
-}}}
-
-Answers:
-
- * http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2006-April/thread.html#22556
-
-=== Nominations 2006 ===
-
-''The comments were copied from the [http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?userPosts=y&user=449164&query=psc&sort=date related emails].''
-
- * Brad Douglas (nominated by 11): for clone removal and code refactoring
- * Cedric Shock (nominated by 11): various code contributions
- * Dylan Beaudette (nominated by 4): deep commitment to community, publishes useful tips
- * Glynn Clements (nominated by 1): for his vast knowledge of standards, practices and compatibility
- * Hamish Bowman (nominated by 11): for documentation, integration, and various modules
- * Helena Mitasova (nominated by 1): for the obvious
- * Maciej Sieczka (nominated by 5):
- * Markus Neteler (nominated by 14): for the obvious.  :-)
- * Michael Barton (nominated by 12): very responsive to comments and questions; various code contributions
- * Paolo Zatelli (nominated by 1 ): no reason given
- * Paul Kelly (nominated by 11): for PROJ and platform support
- * Radim Blazek (nominated by 1): for his extensive GRASS work including vector and DBMS support
- * Roger Bivand (nominated by 7): no reason given
- * Venkatesh Raghavan (nominated by 9):
- * Massimiliano Cannata (nominated by 1):
-
-Declined (please reconsider)
-
- * Radim Blazek (nominated by 1): for his extensive GRASS work including vector and DBMS support
-
-=== Status September 2006 ===
-
-'''The GRASS Project Steering Committee ([PSC])''' - officially formed 11th Sept. 2006.
-
- * '''Michael Barton''' (michael barton * asu edu)
- * '''Dylan Baudette''' (debeaudette * ucdavis edu)
- * '''Hamish Bowman''' (hamish_nospam * yahoo com)
- * '''Massimiliano Cannata''' (massimiliano cannata * supsi ch)
- * '''Brad Douglas''' (rez * touchofmadness com)
- * '''Paul Kelly''' (paul-grass stjohnspoint co uk)
- * '''Helena Mitasova''' (hmitaso * unity ncsu edu)
- * '''Scott Mitchell''' (smitch * mac com)
- * '''Markus Neteler''' (neteler * osgeo org) (chair)
- * '''Maciej Sieczka''' (tutey * o2 pl)
-
-(see also [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Team GRASS Team page])
-
-Next step: Revise [wiki:RFC/1_ProjectSteeringCommitteeGuidelines RFC1] (Request For Comment) for the GRASS community to consider
-
-=== Status November 2006 ===
-
-A [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc/ dedicated GRASS-PSC mailing list] has been created. It is open to the public.
-
-=== Status December 2006 ===
-
-The PSC has an Agenda (more there).