pgRouting 2022 Annual Report

02.02.2023

Overview

There have been many activities during the past year mainly due to the application of incubation to OSGeo.

This report includes releases, activities, incubation status, presentations. 

2022 Releases

During 2022 there were 8 releases:

• 5 releases for version 3.3: v3.3.1 ~ v3.3.5
• 3 releases for version 3.4: v3.4.0 ~ v3.4.2

Presentations & participations

pgRouting participated on the following events:

Other presentations

During the GSoC program (February ~ July), twitching “how to develop pgRouting” where the following was presented, depending on the weekly needs:

• Organization of the code
• Code Standards
• Documenting the code
• Weekly GSoC evaluation

Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Mentoring

pgRouting has been a proud contributor to the Google Summer of Code initiative for many years.

In 2022, four GSoC students were accepted and three were able to finalize the program.   The reports of the GSoC projects/students projects are:

• Add Google OR Tools functionality in vrpRouting https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2022-Add-Google-OR-Tools-functionality-in-vrpRouting 
• Implement Cuthill Mckee Ordering Algorithm https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2022-Implement-Cuthill-Mckee-Ordering-Algorithm-for-pgRouting-by-the-Boost-Graph-Library
• Implementing hawick_circuits algorithm  https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-2022-Implementing-hawick_circuits-algorithm-from-Boost-Graph-Library-to-pgRouting 

Two members of the pgRouting PSC are part of the OSGeo GSoC Administrators who guided the OSGeo foundation to be accepted again on the GSoC Program.

Incubation

1. PSC election

On mentors request, before having a PSC election, inactive PSC members were asked if they were still in that role: Some of them answered: no they were not, some did not answer at all.

Using limesurvey, the OSGeo community was asked to cast a vote for the election of the pgRouting members. (link to community request)

Results were unofficially announced on June 20th twitter and officially on October 12th on the developers mailing lists

Current PSC members (alphabetical order):

• Ashish Kumar
• Cayetano Benavent
• Daniel Kastl
• Rajat Shinde
• Regina Obe
• Vicky Vergara

2. Incubation request

July 26th An incubation request was sent to OSGeo incubator.

On November 8th the motion  passed  

3. Incubation code sprint

Date: November 8th / November 15th

Details of the announcement: https://www.osgeo.org/events/pgrouting-codesprint-2022/

We had a good participation, during the first day, and in between those 2 days:

• Provenance review was started
• Files lacking a license were fixed.

See related incubation issues.

See related incubation Pull requests.

See the pgRouting’s OSGeo incubation  main wiki page.

Finances

pgRouting use open collective and community bridge to get fundings and they are reachable from the Git repository:

Expenses