Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-27 Thread John Caron
strument Data Simulation > Product Format Specification > > EUMETSAT > Eumetsat-Allee 1 > 64295 Darmstadt > Germany > > > > -Original Message- > From: CF-metadata [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of > Charlie Zender > Sent: Friday, S

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-24 Thread stephen.pascoe
n [mailto:timothy.patter...@eumetsat.int] Sent: 24 September 2014 09:16 To: 'Charlie Zender'; CF Metadata Mail List Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion I'm wondering whether CF Convention 2.0 is the right naming convention to be using to refer to this new bra

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-24 Thread Timothy Patterson
ail List Subject: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion I like the idea of a Google Doc to consolidate the issue list. Whether it will prove unwieldy is hard to guess. A 3-month period for listing use-cases seems reasonable. It seems more CF-like to be use-case driven than to presume the enti

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-22 Thread Derrick Snowden - NOAA Federal
In an earlier, and different, thread Rich Signell mentioned the Semantic Versioning concept of x.y.z notation, meaning MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. See http://semver.org/ and in particular items 6-8. I agree with Rich in that semantic versioning is a good approach and something CF should consider explicitl

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-22 Thread Heiko Klein
Dear Jonathan, removal/backward incompatibility is a difficult issue, and having several ways to do things just because of backward compatibility will make CF hard to understand. It is not only new features in CF which introduces too many ways to do things, also the existing document has plen

Re: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-19 Thread Timothy Patterson
List Subject: [CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion I like the idea of a Google Doc to consolidate the issue list. Whether it will prove unwieldy is hard to guess. A 3-month period for listing use-cases seems reasonable. It seems more CF-like to be use-case driven than to presume the entire

[CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-19 Thread Charlie Zender
I like the idea of a Google Doc to consolidate the issue list. Whether it will prove unwieldy is hard to guess. A 3-month period for listing use-cases seems reasonable. It seems more CF-like to be use-case driven than to presume the entire netCDF4 data model will be adopted. This has the advantag

[CF-metadata] CF-2.0 Convention discussion

2014-09-19 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear John > So I propose we have a 3 month discussion period where we clarify what the > issues are and possible improvements or changes. We wont try too hard > during that period to create final wording, and divergences of opinion will > be recorded rather than resolved. After that we will have a