PSC Meeting 2025-11-14

Participants

• Anna Petrasova
• Huidae Cho
• Linda Karlovska
• Markus Neteler
• Nicklas Larsson
• Paulo van Breugel
• Vaclav Petras
• Veronica Andreo

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

• Report from NumFOCUS Project Summit (VP)
• GRASS Wiki under DDOS attack, see https://discourse.osgeo.org/t/grass-wiki-under-ddos-attack/150717
• New wiki page: Organizing GRASS Contributor Events
• GRASS Meeting 2026 - Luca's proposal
• Upcoming releases:
  • Release 8.4.2 (due to relevant fixes; the branch-CI is also functional again) - milestone
  • Release 8.5.0 - milestone
• Reimburse Alen for stickers he bought to take to NZ

Minutes

• Report from NumFOCUS Project Summit:
  • VP participated of the NumFOCUS projects summit; there were not many other projects attending.
  • There are calls for small grants (USD 10K per project per year), that we should apply for, and ideally use them for development.
  • It seems we need to apply as a project, but it is not clear who submits. In any case, the person interested in the money should lead the effort. See: https://numfocus.org/programs/small-development-grants.
  • We had a meeting with them on Tue 18th, but AP will ask them to move it because neither VP nor VA can attend. New date: Dec 10th, 2025.

• GRASS wiki under attack:
  • MN set up countermeasures on the server, instructions to be dumped in our infrastructure shared doc
  • Not everyone has access to that doc, so we shall review and discuss our shared folder and files “policy”.

• New wiki page on organizing GRASS events:
  • https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Organizing_GRASS_Contributor_Events.

• GRASS meeting San Michele 2026:
  • See Luca's proposal.
  • Nicklas is not available for any of the proposed dates.
  • AP and VP depend on the green card, if they get it on time, any of the dates are fine.
  • Paulo: 50% with the second date.
  • HC: probably the second date.
  • MN and VA: any date fine for now.
  • Linda: new baby coming! Congrats!

• Release 8.4:
  • VP and MN will agree on a date soon to do the release together.
  • Edouard will be invited, too.

• Release 8.5:
  • It will have CMake in the source code as experimental feature to try for users who compile code themselves (but extensions won’t work for them).
  • FHS won’t work with CMake yet.
  • It’s a matter of communication about what’s there in the source code. Binaries will be with autotools, so addons will work.
  • Blockers: there’s an issue with r.blend and something with r.patch with vrt and nprocs > 1 (the latter found by Metz, but still unreported)
  • New python API, VP will call for a webinar on it by mid-dec, to show how it works and collect some feedback, too.
  • JSON stuff and mkdocs is in good shape to go.
  • Jupyter notebook PR needs to be reviewed, it does not work in windows, but this is not a blocker, we can mark it as experimental.
  • Drop support for PROJ < 8 and GDAL < 3? Nicklas created issues to get feedback, it could be done before the release. See #6628 and #6629.

• Motion proposed and passed to reimburse Alen for the stickers. VP will contact Michael Smith, so Alen gets reimbursed.

• Plan extraordinary meeting - PSC + Luca to plan 2026 budget + community meeting when the call for OSGeo budget is out.
  • VP proposal: include an item to promote GRASS in other than FOSS4G conferences.