Hi all, I took notes during todays meeting at the OSGeo
code sprint in Philly (with one remote caller, thanks Amed.)
This is just a rough cut so please reply with any needed
corrections.
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attendees: Andrew Ross, Jody Garnett (UDig), Rob and Eugene
(GeoTrellis), Jim (GeoMesa), Diego g3m, Howard Butler
(libspatialindex) David Winslow (GeoGig), Amed (GeoJinni)
What is locationtech, what's the board, what is the
upcoming election?
What's going on with the LocationTech/Eclipse maven
repository
- Eclipse Foundation committer elections coming up
- LocationTech PMC should hold our own committer
elections to find a volunteer to have a seat on
LocationTech steering committee.
- LocationTech emulates Eclipse Foundation structure and
policies. Two governing bodies - Eclipse Foundation
Board has guaranteed seats for strategic members and
elected committer seats for project participants.
- Three candidates for elected seats this year:
- John ??? (Supporter of LocationTech)
- Ed Mercks (Eclipse Modelling)
- Jay Billings (Science working group). Science and
Geo similar in that they are not IDE extensions (for
the most part.) Jay understands some of the unique
situation that LocationTech is in.
- LocationTech steering committee involves one, 1-hour
meeting per month. PMC looks at prerequisites before IP
team reviews potential new projects.
- Organizing the "non-IDE" participants that are under
Eclipse Foundation could help us to get a committer seat
in the future.
- Andrew to coordinate votes for the committer and
participant elections. Anyone interested in running
should put together a statement about their vision for the
community and contact Andrew.
Portal updates
- Some committers failed to be approved after migrating to
LocationTech. The approval voting process is multiple
steps and if not all are completed then eventually the
nomination is rejected.
- IP review process - no one approves their own reviews.
Keep discussion on the PMC mailing list.
- GPL libraries unacceptable
- LGPL requires unanimous board approval
- Weird cases (EPSG database, JAI) contact Andrew
- LocationTech Maven repository - IP team is set up for
Orbit (OSGI bundles, not maven artifacts.)
- As artifacts are approved for distribution the IP team
uploads to Orbit. Not set up to upload to Maven repo.
- Current process for getting artifacts into maven repo
is to create bugzilla ticket and have Wayne upload it.
- Andrew working on getting committers access to Nexus.
- Jim Hughes moves to allow all committers upload access
to the Nexus repository. Seconded by Jody Garnett.
- Action item: Raise EPSG database licensing concerns with
steering committee. <Jody Garnett>
Andrew reminds everyone that IP review is important but
not the community. Community comes from participation in
events like the LocationTech tour and OSGeo sprint and
encouraging new members to participate in our projects.
LocationTech can host additional events as part of the
LocationTech tour, just issue pull requests against the
locationtech web site to set one up. EventBrite invites
needed as well.
GeoTrellis and GeoMesa collaborating on a space-filling
curve library. Seeking a good name (SFCurve? Bent? GeoZigZag?
Spackle?)
Q&A.
GeoMesa IP review: Hadoop JARs used for MapReduce.
Auxiliary facilities such as ZooKeeper needed but not included
with project (declared as "works with" dependency.) If we
list specific versions in the IP review is that sufficient,
even though other versions might be used in deployment? Yes.
However LocationTech would probably benefit from
coordinating to use common versions of these external
dependencies across projects.
libspatialindex: As the lone C/C++ project in the room,
we're curious about how we can support the "10 minute startup"
model. Don't benefit from Nexus or Orbit, rely on linux
distributions etc. to package artifacts for different
platforms.
