[Geotools-devel] osgeo budget request

[Jody G. <jod...@gm...>]

Good morning folks,

OSGeo board put out their call for budget request; separately they have
"todo" ticket for removing the org.opengis
<https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/142> package from the
GeoTools codebase. And it is on the agenda for the next board meeting
<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2023-01-30>.

I have provided a technical debt wiki page on refactoring org.opengis
packages (reversing the work we did to provide the interfaces to start the
project) in order to get an idea on the work required and costs involved:
https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/Remove-OpenGIS

Since this change provides no value to the geotools codebase I have no real
interest in fundraising for the activity. I would expect a similar effort
to the Java 11 split-package refactoring where the work can be done, and a
script created and tested against downstream GeoWebCache and GeoServer
codebases.

For that activity sponsorship raised around $5k for a cross-project sprint.
The in-kind contributions were 10-25k (staff time / travel / venue /
fundraising).

I am going to recommend putting in a budget request of 10k for geotools,
and 5k for geowebcache, and 5k for geoserver to cover a similar
undertaking. If successful we will still need to ask for in-kind
participation for individuals and organizations (even if just to cover
their risk).

I do not think we have a meeting before their budget deadline; so if I can
get a few +1 replies to this email I will make the request on our behalf.

Also after last year I am going to separately suggest an OSGeo budget for
"security issues" (as a cross project initiative similar to code sprints).
Because 2022 sucked.
--
Jody Garnett