GeoServer/GeoTools PMC Meeting at 18:30 CET / 9:30 PDT tomorrow

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GeoTools / GeoServer PMC meeting - 2026-10-06

Attending

  • Torben Barsballe
  • Kevin Smith
  • Peter Smythe
  • Jody Garnett
  • Andrea Aime
  • Gabriel Roldan
  • Pierre Mauduit

Actions from prior meetings:

  • Jody: Proposal to adopt maven standard (<major>.<minor>.<incremental>-<qualifier>) in GeoTools and GeoWebCache so projects are aligned.
  • Nuno: Proposal to amend release process
  • Torben: propose migrating from SourceForge to downloads.osgeo.org

Agenda

  1. Release Archive update to download.osgeo.org
  2. Jira is back… short live Jira?
  3. Community module cleanup
  4. Check for update community module proposal
  5. Release planning
    1. GeoServer cloud releases planning
  6. PR round up!

Actions

  • Alessio and Gabe to work on geoserver-cloud release

Release Archive update to download.osgeo.org

Torben: Archive releases now available for download:

Pending items:

  • Anyone know anything about the “OldReleases” folders?
    • Going to move this one to email for feedback
    • This is really old releases from Chris Holmes hardrive
      (STRUTS ui and everything)
  • Update release links / blog posts (?)
  • Can we also use this for current releases -> Haven’t gotten an answer from OSGeo SAC on that one, would like more info before opening GS Proposal.

Questions and feedback:

  • Do we need to fix this ahead of the release cycle on October 19th?
  • This is missing some recent releases, like GeoTools 35 …

Jira is back… short live Jira?

Jira is back, took some phone calls:

  • It should not go away again
  • We can deactivate users to reduce our 2000 user count

Andrea has his deskside project to convert to github?

  • however the release procedure would need to be modified again
  • also the automatic blog post writer
  • So good idea for 3.1.x…

Atlassian says renewal process is “automated” so it should not get stuck again in 6 months.

Community module cleanup

See discourse discussion:

  • sqlite - removed
  • ogcapi-tiled-features
  • ogcapi-images

Check for update community module proposal

  • Great idea: Use github tags to check if a new version is released
    • Admin warning on screen
    • Startup log message
  • Check once per login of user?
    • Or check for updates (perhaps on the about geoserver page)

Release planning

Simultaneous release every two months during transition to GeoServer 3:

  • Monday October 19: GeoServer 3.0.2 / 2.28.6
  • Jody and Peter to release

GeoServer Cloud release planning:

  • Gabe and Alessio to release geoserver-cloud alongside 3.0.2 above

Nice discourse comment on update:
“I want to say thank you to all the geoserver/geotools people. We’ve done the upgrade to the 3.x series this month, and it was probably the most boring major upgrade I’ve done in a long time. It’s just chugging along.”

PR round up!

Andrea has some good GeoSever 3.1.x only changes coming ahead of foss4gna talk.

A lot of individual ImageN 0.9.3 changes to backport as a single PR:

Please help review PRs: