Distribution Special Interest Groups
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It has been proposed to create and promote a group of interest for distribution related issues. Main goals of this kind of initiative is raising the interest towards distributions (mainly GNU/Linux, but not limited to it) among upstream developers and create a stable and well-stated channel of communication between packagers and developers. Some aspects of distribution development and maintainance, as well as quality assurance practices are often quite obscure for many upstream developers indeed, but essential to ensure an easy approach to free GIS for naive or also advanced users.
Well known GNU/Linux distributions which have a GIS dedicated team are: