+0 on the org.opengis - I might have capacity to do that work later this
year but I can think of better things to do with the money.

+1 on the security issues fund (might be able to tap the EU for funds for
that)

Ian

On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 20:06, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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