The GRASS GIS project roadmap, established in September 2024, provides a clear outline of our key priorities and strategic objectives for the next 3 years. While we welcome all kinds of contributions, the following efforts are most likely to get broad support from the project maintainers.
The GRASS GIS mission is to bring advanced geospatial technologies to the world. To that end, we plan to release one minor version per year and micro versions as needed:
In order to make GRASS GIS run as smoothly as possible on all platforms, we plan to:
GRASS GIS has robust and unique models and tools for geoprocessing and analysis that can be used together with other software packages (eg., R and Python) in data science pipelines. While the conda package described above serves this area of focus, we also aim to:
We want to streamline researchers' unique contributions to keep bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world. Our goals in this focus area are:
We are committed to provide robust, secure and high quality software by introducing tools to detect vulnerabilities, code quality and formatting issues. To maintain high standards, we will:
We are committed to offer complete and up to date documentation for newcomers, users and contributors. Our goals are to:
Growing the GRASS GIS community is essential for fostering innovation, collaboration, and the long-term sustainability of the project. To grow and diversify our community, we aim to:
A diverse group of contributors have invested their time and financial support to ensure the ongoing development of GRASS GIS. To ensure GRASS' long-term success, we aim to:
GRASS GIS is used in several different ways by different users and in different contexts. To showcase GRASS versatility and innovation, we aim to: