Howard Butler, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, Michael Sumner, and Javier Jimenez 
Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 07/25/2024. The following 
items were discussed and reported upon:

Discussion Items
----------------------------

* Esri has committed and been invoiced of three years of gold sponsorship of 
GDAL through the GDAL Sponsorship Program. Thanks again to Esri for its 
multi-year commitment! Sustained institutional support from organizations like 
Esri in the GDAL Sponsorship Program directly supports maintenance of GDAL 
continuous integration activity, ticket reviews, build system updates, bug 
fixing, and security fuzz testing.
* Discussion about modifying the current CHANGELOG layout of maintenance versus 
major releases
* Even and Javier discussed epsg.io <http://epsg.io/> with MapTiler folks at 
FOSS4GE Tartuu about improvements to update and eliminate mis-specified 
projection parameters for some coordinate systems.

Maintenance activities update
------------------------------------------

Alessandro
* GDALArgument parser implementation for gdal_manage
* Remove fixed level option conflicted with -i and -e in gdal_contour
* Geopackage driver PR reviews and testing
* PR reviews
 
Dan

* ReadTheDocs configuration and deployment. It was tough to get the Python 
bindings building and loading as part of the documentation build setup on RTD
* robots.txt indexing configuration (thanks for suggestions from Rob Coup)
* web stats showing ~33k hits/day to gdal.org <http://gdal.org/> with 2600 
unique clicks/day

Even

* 90+ PR, ticket, and review activities
* Reaction and investigation resulting of GitHub rolling a somewhat broken 
Windows SDK
* Additional STANDALONE driver build configurations in support of RFC 96 
(Arrow, OpenJPEG, TileDB, Georaster, etc)
* Multithreading read support for VRT and gdalvrtindex (non-overlapping 
scenarios)
* Additional "simplified" RasterIO interface that sizes and fills a buffer to 
provide a convenient alternative invocation
 
Javier

* Point interpolation method improvements 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/10506

Michel

* gdalraster bindings in R bringin VSI and expanded capability to R
* discussion about kerchunk and GDAL

Howard

* I'll see you at FOSS4GNA in September where I will be presenting about the 
GDAL Sponsorship Program 
https://whova.com/embedded/session/yES4SgdEKaaEK0AD6y4YnM1DD3NRWjkPECkzqJQHhCY%3D/4005895/?widget=primary
 

The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 08/22/2024 at 13:00 UTC. Any GDAL PR 
contributors are welcome to join by reaching out to me for an invite.

Howard
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