Re: [Geotools-devel] GeoServer/GeoTools PMC Meeting at 18:30 CET / 9:30 PDT tomorrow

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

GeoTools / GeoServer PMC meeting - 2025-09-09Attending

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   Torben Barsballe


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   Jody Garnett
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   Gabriel Roldan
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   Kevin Smith
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   Peter Smythe


Actions from prior meetings:

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   Andrea & Jody OR Peter: 2.26.4 release as time permits

Agenda

   1.

   MkDocs revival
   2.

   ImageN Arrives
   3.

   gs-oidc updates
   4.

   release schedule w/ disclosure planning
   5.

   Java 17 OpenRewrite updates


Actions

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   Daniele: ImageN CITE test failures
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   Jody: bin download does not run
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   Gabe and jody: milestone 2.28-M0
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   Peter and Jody: website announcement.py automation updates + developer
   guide


MkDocs revival

Peter:

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   Picked this up, thanks!
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   Managed find does not work on windows, working on unix pandoc
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   Fixed a couple of regression with documentation test project
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   Submit a PR on the documentation
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      user
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      developer
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      docguide
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   after that workflows to publish mkdocs to github pages
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      Then everywhere can do A/B comparisons


So good - thanks Peter!

ImageN Arrives

ImageN has landed on main branches!

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   Wow this has taken 18 years since the last release of JAI! Congrats!
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   failure: Run CITE Tests / CITE (geotiff11)
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   failure: Run CITE Tests / CITE (wcs11)
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   nightly build bin download does not run, some kind of sl4j jar missing?

   java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory
   at
   org.eclipse.jetty.xml.XmlConfiguration.<clinit>(XmlConfiguration.java:83)





Q: Milestone release?

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   A good idea, to test the packaging, see above “bin download does not
   run”?


Others:

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   ImageN 0.4 is the first to combine JAI and JAI-Ext in single codebase
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   Lots of nice simplifications as no longer need to workaround “legacy”
   operators
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   To consider for the 0.4 release:
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      Jiffle docs - done!
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      Rename JAI constants to ImageN constants ← this may be too much???
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         Maybe rename JAI to ImageN, and then make an JAI extends ImageN
         (produces warnings for anyone still using JAI constant)
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         JAI.KEY_TILE_FACTORY  → ImageN.KEY_TILE_FACTORY



actions:

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   Daniele: ImageN CITE test failures
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   Jody: bin download does not run
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   Gabe and jody: milestone 2.28-M0



gs-oidc updates

Ian Turon and David had a look this week:

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   Alessio has performed gap analysis between gs-oauth2 and gs-oidc -
   examples:
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      A big thing is to make the codebase extendable, for the different
      OAuth2 variants (google, geonode etc..)
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      OAuth2 resource server
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      Etc…
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   Goal is set up test containers against Keycloak, long term to be
   supported extension
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   Expect a crunch prior to 2.28.0 release (so now …)


Q: Should gs-oauth2 be renamed?

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   OAuth2 → Authentication only
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   OAuth2 OpenID Connect → this is one use of OAuth2 (Authentication +
   Authorization)
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   What would the workflow be? Configure for Authentication (OAuth2),
   configure for roles (OIDC)?


So a cheerful update, will try and get more of this done for 2.28.0 release
:)

aside:

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   please expect a “code freeze” in October for a GeoServer 3 code sprint!
   Brr winter is coming. So all “main” branches will be locked down 1+
   weeks, for all the codebases in the java stack!


release schedule w/ disclosure planning

Checking releasing schedule, we are aiming for September 18th for 2.28.0

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   But first a 2.28-M0 release (see above) to road test ImageN update (gabe
   and jody)
   September 12 - when we have nightly builds running
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   Based on this experience we may push back a bit until later in
   September? (jody and aaime?)
   September 29 - last Monday of the month


Discussion:

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   automation idea: some updates to the website blog post script to better
   check for disclosures associated with release


Action:

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   Peter and Jody: website announcement.py automation updates + developer


Java 17 OpenRewrite updates

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   Rebasing geotools and geoserver pull requests to fix merge conflicts
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   Then finalizing build failures


ChitChat

Gabe:

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   Working on PMTiles, like mbtiles for cloud provider storage
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   GeoParquet is working, next step is to make it more production ready


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   aside: Some positive found feedback from GeoCat Cloud


Jody:

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   foss4g planning, picked up some of Andrea’s talks (oh no!)
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   discussion on code sprint locations for GS3 code freeze, travel costs,
   etc..


Kevin:

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   Is good!