PSC Meeting 2021 05 21

GeoMoose PSC, May 21st, 2021

Attending

theduckylittle, klassenjs, Brent88, elil, jmckenna, tchaddad, darkblue_b

Agenda

in rough order covered:

• Editing Update
• Next Release
• Freenode, and other communication options
• PSC meeting frequency

Next Meeting

June 18th, 2021

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Observation: 10 years of minutes in the wiki - wooohoo!

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Editing

Brent sent the following update about the status of the big editing enhancements to the PSC list on May 5th:

Code

• complete (thanks Dan!)
• before release, resolve #636:( Discussion: Re-organization of Layer tools)

Examples

• TBD: resolve #631
• add ?mapbook= parameter capability
• desire to add Docker container of GeoServer and data to gm3-demo-data

Online demo

• TBD: add editing
• desire no/minimal changes from Example

Docs

• in progress (by Brent)
• depends on Examples additions

Various tickets have been mentioned as needing resolution before the 3.8 release:

• 631 - Update examples add editing
• 636 - Reorganization of layer tools
• 640 - Print Inconsistency
• 643 - Add "Buffer All" functionality
• 644 - Add Bounding Box and Z/Lon/Lat support to loc param
• 645 - Add Mapbook hash parameter

Other tickets mentioned, but not discussed in depth

• 564 - Set Initial Extent by Bounding Box
• 592 - add xyz= hash parameter
• 601 - Identify on WFS point and line layers not returning results

Next Release(s)

3.8

• 3.8 release should happen roughly by May 31st (next week or so)
• 3.8 milestones listed here

4.0

• 4.0 may be later in the year, perhaps to coincide with MapServer 8.0 in early September

• difficult to list all impacts of MapServer 8.0 just yet, but generally: security changes, new MapServer config file, OGCAPI

• some are simple to deal with e.g. the end of 'DUMP TRUE'

• others are still not fully settled e.g. the security topics

• 4.0 Could be focused around support for / transition to OGCAPI, if that seems appropriate

PSC Communications

Things have been happening in the Freenode community, and the dust has not settled yet. With the future unclear, it seems we should keep an eye on how things evolve while keeping future options open.

Jeff has registered several channels on libera.chat, including #geomoose, which Jim can now access if it comes to it.

Separate from the freenode topic, we had a small conversation about other ways to communicate between meetings (outside of IRC, the email list, and GitHub issue conversations). Other projects are using platforms like Gitter (QGIS, OpenDroneMap, etc), or Slack. No real clear favorite for folks emerged, though duck is considering setting up a GM Slack to see if it ends up being of use.

For now, no major changes to the standard practice have been decided, so carry on as usual folks!

PSC Meeting Frequency & Pattern

Duck expressed interest in more frequent PSC meetings, of shorter duration, so following this logic, we'll try to establish a new pattern of monthly meetings on 3rd Fridays @ 8am Pacific 10am Central, 12pm Atlantic

This makes the remaining 2021 meeting dates would tentatively be as follows:

Date	Topics to plan for
June 18th	???
July 16th	???
August 20th	Prepare for MapServer 8.0 release planned Sept 3rd
September 17th	???
October 15th	???
November 19th	OSGeo typically would need 2022 budget submitted by early December
December 17th	???

Certain months may have to adjusted if major conflicts arise, but we will try to stick to this general idea...