Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, and Alessandro Pasotti canceled the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting that was to be held on 10/26/2023 due to vacation and FOSS4GNA conflicts. Maintainers instead provided text updates which I am relaying as our monthly report.
Fundraising update ---------------------------- FrontierSI has declined to renew its Bronze sponsorship. More renewal traffic is expected in the next few months as we work to finish this year's cycle. OSGeo Community Sprint ------------------------------------------ Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Jukka Rahkonen, and Dan Baston are currently signed up to attend the OSGeo Community Sprint next week in Vienna https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2023 GDAL PSC members can obtain travel grants through the sponsorship program if they wish to attend (contact me for info). Maintenance activities update ------------------------------------------ Status from Dan: > * Fixed a bug in /vsimem that was causing some tests to not clean up after > themselves. > * Fixed more Python bindings crashes as a result of test execution > independence effort. Status from Alessandro: > This month I reviewed a few PRs (mainly from Even): > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8534 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8531 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8529 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8526 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8521 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8519 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8518 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8516 > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8495 > > Then I focused on investigating and fixing the following bugs: > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/8525 OpenCL always uses first > device per platform on Mac > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/8523 Error in > gdal.VectorTranslate for explodecollections=True + some weird python > logging behaviour > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/8522 OAPIF: Increase the default page > size > > Lastly, starting from a QGIS upstream issue > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/54966 I worked on the GDAL side of > the problem and wrote a test https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8609, > while investigating the issue I discovered another issue which was > eventually fixed by Even with https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8582 Status from Even: > - Regeneration of GDAL 3.7.2 Docker images for WebP and curl recent CVEs > - Add OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch() functionality which is the write-side of > RFC86, with a generic implementation for all drivers and specialized > implementations for Arrow/Parquet:https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8517- > and use it in ogr2ogr when possible, that is when the source layer declares > OLCFastGetArrowStream to give significant speed-ups (including for > GeoPackage->GeoPackage): https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8544 > +https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8560 . Note that is currently only > enabled with a very restricted set of ogr2ogr options (mostly only -spat, > -where and driver creation options) > - Massive speed-up of GeoPackage spatial index creation. From 26 seconds down > to 6 seconds on a 3.2 million feature table. > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8596 . Also available as a separate > library that can be used by non-GDAL implementations (libspatialite for > example) > - Significant performance improvement of RasterIO() on VRT with > VRTComplexSource that have only a <NODATA> element and data types > Byte/UInt16/Int16: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8562 > - CI: addition of (an embryo of) a performance regression test suite. Note > that due to CI virtual machines being quite unpredictable performance-wise, > it can only detect regressions > 20%. https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8538 > - and ~50 other activities: bug fixes, pull request reviews The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 11/23/2023 at 9:00 EDT. Any PSC members are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite. Howard _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
