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Date: 7-12-2023

Location: https://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

Agenda

Notes

Actions

Date: 26-10-2023

Location: https://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • Jose
  • François
  • Olivia

Agenda

  • Release of 4.2.7 / 4.4.1 - 22 of November: changes allowed until 15 November 

Notes

  • Docker published today for version 4.4.0 https://hub.docker.com/_/geonetwork/tags 
  • Review Docker install instructions for 4.2.x / 4.4.x as seem hard to follow..
    • ToDo - Discuss with Jody / Juan
  • Roadmap for GN / GN-UI / microservices.
  • Check for each release to update the versions of the main libraries (minor versions).

Actions

  • Document current DCAT support.
  • Prepare a document with a proposal for branch maintenance and list features expected in new versions. 
  • Check with Jody about the workflow to make automatic backports PR.
  • Check with Juan about the redirects for the manual in the application help links.
  • Update doc manual url in the OnlineHelpDirective for 4.2.x and 4.4.x.

Date: 28-09-2023

Location: https://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • Jose
  • François
  • Juan Luis
  • Jo
  • Jeroen (chair)

Agenda

Notes

Actions

  • Merge important PRs for next releases
  • Release 4.4.0 / 4.2.6 / 3.12.11 on Wednesday 4 october
  • Publish MkDocs on https://docs.geonetwork-opensource.org/ 
  • Document current DCAT support
  • Make a PSC voting for 3.12.x end-of-life (end of March 2024) 

Actions from previous meeting

Date: 23-08-2023

Location : Bolsena

Attending

  • Jose
  • François
  • Florent
  • Juan
  • Michel
  • Olivia
  • Sébastien

Agenda

Actions from previous meeting

  • Merge important PRs for next releases
  • Release 4.4.0 and 4.2.6 in September with the same set of features
  • Organize a talk about data ingestion/api stuff
  • Organize a PSC meeting about gn-ui strategy and governance
  • Add documentation in helm-charts repo (and add geonetwork)

Date: 06-07-2023

Location: http://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • François Prunayre
  • Florent Gravin
  • Jose Garcia
  • Jeroen Ticheler

Agenda

Actions from previous meeting

Notes

  • October 3 : GeoNetwork user meeting in Swisstopo
    • Provide a list of people to invite to Michel by Wednesday next week
    • Draft agenda next week
    • Suggestion to organize a poll in September
  • Issue on clean install if initial records imported creates a wrong index schema (eg. a metadata having a date in a text field may create an index field typed as date if not declared in index structure) ? 
  • Branches
    • After release 4.2.5, add 4.2.x for minor release
    • And use main branch for Java 11 and Spring 5

Date: 25-05-2023

Location: http://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • François Prunayre
  • Florent Gravin
  • Jo Cook
  • Jose Garcia

Agenda

  1. Review pull requests and issues to identify different cases.
  2. Discuss branch management.
  3. Metadata101

Actions from previous meeting

Notes from the 25-05-2023 meeting

  • Florent requested to clarify the release process.
  • Discussed approaches to manage GeoNetwork versions by the different companies.
  • Discussed Java 11 upgrade challenges and proposed to work in Bolsena codesprint.
  • Discussed about what requires a proposal or not. 
    • Not for small features or bug fixes.
    • New features or visual changes.
    • Benefits:
      • Facilitate discussion between developers.
      • Help to look for funding.
  • Discussed how to manage the documentation:
    • Florent suggested putting documentation in the code repository.
    • Ask Jody Garnettabout how GeoServer manages the documentation.
  • Most schemas in metadata101 are not maintained.
    • How to highlight which are not maintained? 
  • Behavior in communication channels:
    • Make smoother communication.
  • Check if there is a budget for pull request review to improve the number of reviews / quality.
  • OGC GeoDCAT group: https://www.ogc.org/press-release/ogc-forms-new-geodcat-standards-working-group/
    • Florent indicates to be more active for proposals, like facets.

Date: 04-05-2023

Location: http://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • François Prunayre
  • Florent Gravin
  • Jeroen Ticheler
  • Jose

Actions from Previous meetings

  • Florent to contact Francois to see if he is attending the Lausanne Codesprint
  • Organize a call about opendata visions (maybe at LSN codesprint)
  • Rearrange date of April PSC meeting so it doesn't clash with Lausanne codesprint - Moved to 4 May 2023

Agenda

  1. Decide on note taker for this meeting
  2. Workshop(s) and Presentations FOSS4G
  3. Code Sprint Lausanne
  4. GeoNetwork developments
    1. Should we enable "Private vulnerabilities reporting" similar to the GeoServer project? (facilitates the request of CVE numbers etc...)
  5. Release Planning / https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/milestones 
  6. OSGeo Budget 2023

Actions

Notes from the 04-05-2023 meeting

Date: 30-03-2023

Location: http://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • Jeroen Ticheler
  • Jo Cook
  • Simon Pigot
  • Florent Gravin

Actions from previous meeting

  • Send an email to Jesse and Emanuele to ask them if they want to stay in the PSC or not (Jeroen)
    • Jesse confirmed removal
    • Emanuele confirmed removal
  • Send proposal to FOSS4G before the 28th of Feb 2023 (Florent, Paul, Jeroen)
  • Clarify who is coming to the code sprint, people, remote or indoor
    • Michel Gabriel, Jose Garcia, Jeroen Ticheler in person
    • Jody Garnett remote
  • Organize a workshop to better support DCAT and open data eco system (who?)

Agenda

  1. Decide on note taker for this meeting
  2. Review PSC membership
  3. Workshop(s) and Presentations FOSS4G
  4. Code Sprint Lausanne
  5. GeoNetwork developments
    1. How to maintain a stable release and where to do developments?
  6. Release Planning / https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/milestones 
  7. OSGeo Budget 2023

Actions

  • Florent to contact Francois to see if he is attending the Lausanne Codesprint
  • Organize a call about opendata visions (maybe at LSN codesprint)
  • Rearrange date of April PSC meeting so it doesn't clash with Lausanne codesprint

Notes from the 30-03-2023 meeting

  • Jo taking notes
  • Jeroen emailed Jesse and Emanuele, they are both happy to stand down from the PSC
  • No other changes to PSC membership
  • FOSS4G proposals (State of GeoNetwork, approach for new editor) submitted by Florent but no feedback yet
  • No Geonetwork workshop though
  • Michel and Jose from Geocat attending Lausanne Codesprint in person, Jody online
    • Michel and Jose interested in geonetwork-ui, ogc-api
  • Jo and Elena from Astun hoping to participate remotely in the first two days
    • Possibly able to work on documentation, if not other things
  • Florent, Olivia and Sebastien from CamptoCamp
  • Bolsena will be happening from August 20th for 2 weeks
  • CamptoCamp starting on data platform project, looking at a data API (picking up on work started at Bolsena some years ago)
  • Geonetwork 4 now able to export entire catalog as DCAT
  • No progress on OSGeo budget

Date: 23-02-2023

Location: http://meet.google.com/yie-pxig-pxh

Attending

  • Jeroen Ticheler
  • François Prunayre
  • Florent Gravin (takes notes)
  • Jo Cook
  • Jose Garcia
  • Paul Genuchten

Agenda

Actions

  • Send an email to Jesse and Emanuele to ask them if they want to stay in the PSC or not (Jeroen)
    • Jesse confirmed removal
  • Send proposal to FOSS4G before the 28th of Feb 2023 (Florent, Paul, Jeroen)
  • Clarify who is coming to the code sprint, people, remote or indoor
  • Organize a workshop to better support DCAT and open data eco system (who?)

Notes

FOSS4G

Who is going ?

  • Paul
  • Florent
  • Jeroen
  • Francois ? What presentation ?
  • Alternative editor proposal (Florent)
  • State of GeoNetwork (Florent, Jeroen)
  • Keep the tradition of leading a workshop (Paul, Jeroen)

OGC OSGEO AFS Codesprint 25-27 april

Could be a intermediate code sprint Who is going ?

  • Florent, Olivia, Christophe, Sebastien
  • GeoCat BV ?
  • Francois ?
  • Jo 2 days remote ?
  • Paul/Luis remote Topic
  • Florent OGC API Record:
    • plug geonetwork-ui to an OGC API records backend and have abstraction on the backend.
    • OGC API record browser
    • MeDAL (Metadata Abstraction Library)
  • Francois: testing ongoing already
  • Jo: low entry level documentation (geonetwork-ui or other things)
  • Setup MkDocs
  • Open data

GeoNetwork development

GeoCat BV

  • Migrating Enterprise version to version 4.2 and wishes to have a very stable version.
  • Want to create a 4.2.x branch to be stable and have a main branch for devs.
  • Freeze 4.2.x to security fixes and small devs.
  • Release GN 4.2.3 in a couple of weeks
  • Make a tag of OGC API Records 4.2.3 too
  • New feature: filter out some fields depending on the user privileges

Titellus

  • Minor changes, some issues

Camptocamp

  • Stabilizing geocat.ch on 4.2
  • Trying to port back some code about the shared object.
  • Data API (for dataviz purpose in the record view)
  • Trying to improve open data interoperability (simple harvester and XSL)
  • Lot’s of stuff in geonetwork-ui (editor, backoffice, dataviz)
  • New GeoNetwork dev Sebastien Riollet

Jo/Astun

  • Moving to GN 4.2 and learning how to apply old customisation.
  • New colleague working with GeoNetwork (low level documentation).

Question/vision

  • Make GeoNetwork not only geo ?
  • Embrace the open data world ?

GeoNetwork-ui

  • AngularJS not supported, an issue ?
  • GeoCat has several ideas (UI for the European project).
  • Tries to find funding at the EU level
  • Jo/Astun gives very good feedback on the datahub and start deploying it

Documentation

  • Michel has done a POC with Mkdocs

OSGEO 2023 Budget

  • Jeroen requested 1K
  • Will ask more for Bolsena 20th August (for 2 weeks)

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