[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Add Phillip Ross to PostGIS Docker Hub org

[Phillip Ross]

That's true... I think it will be easiest and quickest if mdillon is
willing to just transfer his repo.  I've broached this topic here:
https://github.com/appropriate/docker-postgis/issues/143

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:54 PM Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Phillip, thanks, sounds reasonable.
>
> I would guess we should simply transfer the repository ownership from appropriate to postgis account, rather than fork and loose all the issues/PRs/... work (there is a way to copy them too, but it won't be as clean. Plus transfer leaves a redirect from the original URL)
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:32 PM Phillip Ross <phillip.w.g.ross+postgis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My perspective:
>>
>> I'd prefer a staged approach whereby we first host it within the
>> postgis organization on github and dockerhub and then work on getting
>> it into the docker-library.  There are a few reasons for this.
>>
>> Firstly, the goal of taking over mdillon's maintainership without
>> leaving consumers/contributors high and dry is a worthy goal.  He's
>> outlined a few issues
>> (https://github.com/appropriate/docker-postgis/issues/143) around
>> transitioning that need to be worked out, and currently there is
>> activity (issues and PRs) that are getting stalled out due to being
>> blocked on the transition.  It would be a shame to lose contributors,
>> so I see transitioning from mdillon's repos to postgis's repos as a
>> lower barrier compared to all that's involved with getting into
>> docker-library project.
>>
>> Secondly, I think the goal of getting latest and greatest postgresql
>> and postgis images being produced is also a high priority.  I've seen
>> a lot of work being done in this vein, and I'd like to work on
>> gathering and incorporating all the contributions that people have
>> been making and try to centralize some evaluation and discussion of
>> the approaches.  This will work best after transitioning from
>> mdillon's repos to repos in the postgis organization.
>>
>> Getting incorporated into docker-library would be really awesome, but
>> I recall one of the suggestions getting incorporated into there is to
>> build community activity.  My instinct is that the two goals I stated
>> above need to happen ASAP to avoid losing the community that already
>> exists.  While docker-library has an even larger community which is
>> just another reason why it should be a goal to aim for, it's a bigger
>> hurdle which will take more time.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> - Phillip
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:52 PM Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > See the section "Creating new Repositories" and the sections after that -- I think we should actually push to move the existing postgis docker there, rather than host it as part of postgis repo -- a wider docker-aware community will be involved rather than purely postgis community.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/docker-library/official-images
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:47 PM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Didn’t even know there was such a thing.  What’s involved to be sanctioned as an official image?  If not too much work I’d say we should go for it.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Regina
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Yuri Astrakhan
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:32 PM
>> >> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
>> >> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Add Phillip Ross to PostGIS Docker Hub org
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> P.S. This also raises a question -- can Postgis be published via the official channel as well -- this way it can be used without a prefix, i.e.   "docker run postgis"  instead of   "docker run postgis/postgis"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/docker-library/postgres is the postgres repository.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:29 PM Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:44 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is there an “official postgres image” we layer on, or is this something else? Does it layer on a particular linux image?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  It relies on two "official" (Docker-community maintained) docker images - postgres:<version> and postgres-alpine:<version> -- see https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres .  The non-alpine uses debian:stretch-slim as the base image.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The dockerfile example references:
>> >>
>> >> * https://github.com/appropriate/docker-postgis/blob/master/11-2.5/Dockerfile#L1
>> >>
>> >> * https://github.com/appropriate/docker-postgis/blob/master/11-2.5/alpine/Dockerfile#L1
>> >>
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