Organisation / maintaining GDAF

GernotMaier commented 3 years ago

This might be a very stupid question, but is there some kind of organisation or responsible person/maintainer behind GDAF?

We are discussing steps towards using GDAF in regular production in VERITAS, which means that some kind of planning is necessary.

what is the way to find consensus on changes?
how are releases planned and organised?
there are 43 open issues (some of them from 2015) and 4 pull requests. Some issues seem to be outdated, but others are definitely important. Is there a plan to handle that?

I am completely aware that this is a complex endeavor (different observatories, science tools, etc) - because of that it is important have some clearly outlined paths for changes and releases.

...and don't give me the answer that we should wait until CTAO takes this over... :-)

maxnoe commented 3 years ago

@GernotMaier As announced on the mailing list (which is linked in the README, so you can subscribe if you haven't yet) we want to organize a meeting after the summer break to exactly discuss this issue and setup some form of governance with representatives from each of the interested parties.

GernotMaier commented 3 years ago

Very good to hear and I am happy to join for this meeting. (also will try to join the mailing list, as soon as the link works).

bkhelifi commented 3 years ago

Very few has received this email. One should maybe enlarged the diffusion... I will joint the NASA mailing list when it will work.

maxnoe commented 3 years ago

(also will try to join the mailing list, as soon as the link works).

Seems the NASA mailing list server is down, let's hope its only temporary. I couldn't find contact info for that.

GernotMaier commented 3 years ago

(I am closing this issue, as further information is distributed through the mailing list)

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Organisation / maintaining GDAF #176