GRASS GIS at OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020
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GRASS GIS participated in the OSGeo Virtual OSGeo Community Sprint 2020 which took place online. November 17, 18, and 19.
Sponsors
See OSGeo Virtual OSGeo Community Sprint 2020.
Communication channels
- GitHub
- grass-dev mailing list
- Jitsi (meet.jit.si)
- A dedicated grass repo project on GitHub for the sprint
Report
- 22 PRs merged
- Open recent files in the integrated Python editor
- Automatically show all newly created data in the GUI
- GUI fixes: 2
- Better CLI messages: 2
- Code quality, segmentation fault: 5
- Other: Unlimited shell history, Fixes for parallel import, CI
- grass-addons repo: 8 PRs
- See the OSGeo Virtual OSGeo Community Sprint 2020 project on Github for full list of PRs worked on in the grass repo.
- New PRs opened and old issues closed.
- 2 hours of community meeting in Jitsi with participants from at least three continents
- Topic 1: Priorities for the upcoming GRASS GIS 8 release
- Action point 1: Open issues on GitHub for the important items at Grass8Planning wiki page on Trac (pick the one you care about the most)
- Topic 2: Is it database, location, and mapset or project and subproject in a directory?
- Action point 2: Discuss various aspects of the location-project controversy on the mailing list.
- People:
- 5 signed up
- Luca Delucchi
- Vaclav Petras
- Veronica Andreo
- Markus Neteler
- Denis Ovsienko
- 12 in the community meeting
- And still more engaged through GitHub and mailing list
- 5 signed up
Photos
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Community meeting