GRASS GIS at OSGeo Virtual Community Sprint 2020

GRASS GIS participated in the OSGeo Virtual OSGeo Community Sprint 2020 which took place online. November 17, 18, and 19.

Communication channels

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.
Website
- New sitemap.xml files implemented in order to add the manual pages and addons for a better SEO ranking
People:
- 5 signed up on the OSGeo Wiki event page
  - Luca Delucchi
  - Vaclav Petras
  - Veronica Andreo
  - Markus Neteler
  - Denis Ovsienko
- 12 participated in the community meeting on 18 Nov 2020
- And still more engaged through GitHub and mailing list