PSC Meeting 2025-02-14

Participants

The topics proposed are:

Communication means related:
- Further mailman transition to discourse.osgeo.org (grass-user, grass-psc, ...): plans?
- Close "Gitter" channels in favor of discourse.osgeo.org?
- Closure of grass-web? Archive https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-web and update related web entries to point to discourse

Tutorials:
- Status of new GRASS GIS tutorials at https://grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/: who maintains it and how to get further content into it

Releases:
- Release of GRASS GIS 8.4.1 GH milestone
- related discussion
- GRASS GIS 8.4.1RC1: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.4.1RC1 (please test it)

Other:
- CMake support: current status and discussion on how to proceed
- Contribution Licence Agreement? See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2024-December/002960.html

Communication:
- Migration of user and psc lists to Discourse: The ticket was created, we are waiting for OSGeo budget to be approved as we depend on SAC to do the actual migration.
- Closing Gitter: It is mostly used during code sprints and has proved to be handy. In any case, we agreed we should only keep channels that we can maintain since we have pretty limited manpower to check and reply in all channels. We agreed to return to this topic once all our mailing lists are migrated to Discourse.
- grass-web: We agreed on closing it, but we need to wait until grass-user is migrated to Discourse, so we replace references to it.

Budget:
- It was submitted in December, we are waiting for OSGeo response.
- NumFocus: Proposal submitted by NCSU folks, waiting for the results.

Tutorials page:
- The site is now up and running: https://grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/
- The contribution and testing workflows need to be clarified ( #19) before the announcement.
- Once the announcement is ready (volunteers?), we post it on social media.
- We agreed that the grass-website GitHub team will also manage grass-tutorials.

Release 8.4.1:
- We bumped the remaining issues to 8.4.2
- All: please review and test.

Migration of HTML documentation:
- Almost done, but it’s complicated. Addons and deployment need to be finished.
- As with tutorials, we should write an announcement and then post it on social media.

Publer:
- VA presented the analytics from Publer website, the most active and engaging social network seems to be LinkedIn.
- All: Please help with liking and sharing.

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