PSC Meeting 2026-05-08

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Participants

  • Helli
  • Anna
  • Vashek
  • Nicklas
  • Paulo
  • Linda
  • Vero
  • Huidae

Agenda

The topics proposed are:

  • Review action points from previous meetings:
    • Community Meeting (see below)
    • Was Corey added to the list of GRASS people with access to the OSGeo server?
    • Status of translation, grass-gui and grass-stats mailman lists?
  • GSoC
    • Support the mentees in maximizing a good use of AI to allow mentors spend time on higher level code reviews and open-source mentoring by purchasing a professional subscription for the mentees?
  • RFC
    • New planned RFC to make C11's optional feature 'atomic support' required for 8.6


Minutes

1. OSGeo server access

  • A ticket was opened a month ago to request OSGeo server access for Corey: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3561
    • No response has been received so far from OSGeo SAC.
    • [Action] Use the same ticket or create new ones to get Nicklas and Edouard access to the server.

2. GRASS Community Meeting - San Michele

  • We drafted the agenda for the event, as it will support the sponsoring request to FOSSGIS e.V.
  • [Action] Vero will meet with MarkusN to help prepare the FOSSGIS request.
  • We discussed criteria for (partial) reimbursement of participants, esp. in terms of commits to the main grass repo.
  • [Action] Treasurer will propose who to reimburse and how much.
  • [Action] All: Let's invite contributors personally, too.

3. Release

  • 8.5.0 is out!
  • We discussed the release procedure based on the #7328, in particular, whether Release Candidates are needed, given that they are rarely tested. Bas is a notable exception, consistently providing feedback on RCs.
  • The goal is to get 8.6 out approximately 6 months after 8.5, as several things are almost ready and did not make it into 8.5.
  • We went through the release announcement and the list of changes on GitHub and did minor edits during the meeting.
  • [Action] Update versions and dates in the roadmap.
  • [Action] Update Download/Windows layout since there is no standalone installer.
  • [Action] Remove all "GIS" from the Download menu.

4. GSoC

  • First time under NumFocus.
  • GRASS was allocated 3 students. Their projects and mentors are as follows:
    • Pytest — Mentors: Vashek and Corey
    • Integrating STDS into Data Catalog — Mentors: Anna and Stefan (Vero and Linda are interested in following this topic)
    • Parallelise r.proj — Mentor: Huidae
  • The first two projects will include adding JSON output to the tools they address.
  • NumFOCUS acts as the fiscal intermediary but is not heavily involved in day-to-day matters.
  • Proposal to use GRASS budget to pay for AI tools for GSoC students — to be discussed further.

5. Funding/Sponsoring

  • We went through the new sponsoring page.
  • New tiers were suggested by NumFOCUS.
  • [Action] Ping Robert Dzur to check whether they want to sponsor the meeting in San Michele.
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