GeoTools / GeoServer Meeting 2016-11-29
Attending
Ben Caradoc-Davies
Kevin Smith
Torben Barsballe
Jukka Rahkonen
Jody Garnett
Agenda
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TitanPad shutting down in May
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OSGeo Live
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2017 budget
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Committee operation
Actions
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Jody: Move from titan pad to google docs
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Ben: Follow up with Ian on the lists regarding OSGeo Live INSPIRE/CSS
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Ben: Take budget discussion to mailing list
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Torben and Kevin volunteered for Dec Release
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Ben: Confirmed next meeting moved 16:30 UTC
Actions from last meeting
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(done) Short list security vulnerabilities for bug stomp
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(done) Torben: Look into gs-scripting build
TitanPad shutting down in May
We will need a replacement:
http://blog.titanpad.com/2016/11/shutting-down-titanpad_12.html
Moved to google docs!
OSGeo Live
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Ben volunteering to upgrade to GeoServer to 2.10.1
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Consider adding WPS, NetCDF, …
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Interest in demonstrating CF NetCDF
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osgeo theme translation initiative …
Interest:
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anyone used it for demonstrations or teaching?
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moved to 4GB image (not DVD)
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INSPIRE and CSS extensions installed
Java 8 Date Handling
Kevin doing some research, may or may not get approval.
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Is Java 8 Date handling okay? That would be a first …
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Is this the death of JODA? Yes JODA website says to migrate to java.time (not java.util.time or java.util.Date).
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Does bunch of what geoserver currently does (parsing ISO dates correctly)
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Consider doing this at the GeoTools level to share with GeoServer/GeoWebCache
2017 Budget Request
Request from the OSGeo board, as a committee do we want budget for 2017:
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Last year we kind of used $2+k for a sprint, and legal advice …
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Ben: It is a good idea to ask for a budget…
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Sprints: Was very effective use of funds last year, brought up …
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CodeHaus migration: also good …
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Difference between budget vs asking as needed
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Budget helps OSGeo manage more responsibly
It is helpful to have a plan for 2017, before asking for budget to accomplish the plan 
Action: Take to mailing list
Committee operations
Committee operation is in developer manual: http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/psc.html
This meets OSGeo guidelines:
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Add / remove members transparently
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Clear procedures for voting (thanks ben)
Discussion- Bug stomp went well
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Closing old pull requests?
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remove gt-wfs? Yes please
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GEOT-5289 Use java.util.ServiceLoader (#1064)
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this should be a focus of GeoTools 17.0 development
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GEOT-5315 Cache features under a low limit (#1355)
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Needs a design discussion on geoserver-devel if the author is interested
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Ben Caradoc-Davies [<ben@anonymised.com>](mailto:ben@anonymised.com)
Director
Transient Software Limited [<http://transient.nz/>](http://transient.nz/)
New Zealand