Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, and Alessandro Pasotti canceled the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting that was to be held on 12/28/2023 due to holiday conflicts. Maintainers instead provided text updates which I am relaying as our monthly report.
Fundraising update ---------------------------- Annual renewals are now going out to sponsors, so if you are a coordinator of GDAL funding in your organization, please be on the lookout for them. Maintenance activities update ------------------------------------------ Status from Dan: > No activity from me this month. I hope you're enjoying your holidays. Status from Alessandro: > Bugfix: SubdatasetInfo API: better check for drive letters > Feature: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/8570Add OGRLayer::GetExtent3D() > PR Review https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8928ogrinfo: add a -extent3D > switch > Feature: PG: GetExtent3D fast implementation > PR Review https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9003 VSICurl and derived: > replace most uses of CPLString with std::sring > PR Review https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8988 WMS: change logic to > set gdalwmscache directory to honor in particular XDG_CACHE_HOME > (fixes #8987) Status from Even: > - Release of GDAL 3.8.1 after 3 release candidates > - Release of GDAL 3.8.2 > - and because of a new 3.8.0 regression that has been reported and now fixed, > I plan to do a 3.8.3 next week > - RFC98 "Build requirements for GDAL 3.9" has been voted and implemented. > This brings a significant cleanup with 8300 lines (mostly cmake compatibility > scripts) removed, including more than 300 #ifdef branches removed > - Attempt at being nicer with respect to numpy dependency by providing a > pyproject.toml file per https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8926 . More > ambitious changes removing deprecated uses of setuptools will probably have > to wait for a potential GDAL 4.0 > - Shapelib 1.6.0 has been released > - a pre-RFC about the removal of a subset of the vendored libraries (namely > zlib, libjpeg, libpng, giflib, liblerc) has been discussed on the mailing > list. Checking further, I've realized that Debian unstable still ships with > jpegturbo < 3.0, and thus has not yet 12-bit JPEG support. I've filed an > issue about that to the libjpegturbo Debian package. I also see that Fedora > Rawhide still ships libjpegturbo < 3.0 (it would be good that someone more > familiar with that part of the ecosystem brings that to the attention of the > maintainer of the package). So for now I'm deferring the RFC and its > implementation to having more widespread use of libjpegturbo 3.0 to avoid > functional loses. The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 01/25/2023 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
