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From: Timothy Patterson [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
-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 netCDF4
data model
: 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 branch.
Firstly, as the classic CF Convention has moved from 1.0
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
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
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
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
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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
