Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, Javier Jiminez Shaw, and Sean Gillies
held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 03/28/2024. The following items
were discussed and reported upon:
Sponsorship Updates
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* Dynamic Graphic, Inc. sponsored GDAL at Supporter level
Discussion Items
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GDAL 3.8.5 RC1 is expected next week. It is intended to be the final 3.8
maintenance release with 3.9.0 being expected in May 2024
Maintenance activities update
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Dan
* Addressed a few Python bindings crash bugs
* Python API documentation cleanups and reorganization to make discovery of
methods groups by typical usage stories
Alessandro
* GDAL PR reviews
* Vector file with Polygon Z with 2 coords causing errors
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/9326
* GTiff: endless loop when resampling (bilinear) under some circumstances
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/9427
*Inconsistent Output Dimensions from gdal.warp() with Identical
outputBounds https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/9467
* Small improvement to code formatting to add line breaks after methods
definition https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9498
Even
* Exploring implementation of a consistent argument parsing library for all of
the GDAL and OGR command line utilities. This library-wide update will provide
a number of quality-of-life improvements for users of the command line
utilities:
* Usage messages will be consistently formatted
* Longer help messages
* Multiple specification of the same arguments should work more consistently
and not fail silently in some cases
* Potential for leverage of same framework to specify input for driving CLI
activity with config files
* Ability to remove lots of boilerplate CLI parsing code in the utilities
* RFC99 was merged that provided preliminary implementation to address
management and bookkeeping of coordinate precision in OGR drivers that can
leverage it. See
https://github.com/rouault/gdal/blob/rfc99_text/doc/source/development/rfc/rfc99_geometry_coordinate_precision.rst
for discussion
* Facilitated the release of OpenJPEG 2.5.2. See
https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/releases/tag/v2.5.2 for more information
* libtiff PSC motion passed and the project is now managed under GDAL-like
processes
* Added a getDataset method on Layers to ensure that library users are not
required to memoize Layer/Dataset relationships
* Action on over 100 tickets and PRs
The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 04/25/2024 at 9:00 EDT. Any PSC members
are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite.
Howard
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