[CF-metadata] proposed rules for changes to CF conventions

From: John Caron <caron>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:32:27 -0600

Karl Taylor wrote:
>
> 3) Producing a netCDF file that includes a proposed change may not be
> entirely trivial, and I fear it might hold up the process. Whose
> responsibility will it be to do this? Some ideas might be proposed by
> individuals who have never actually written any code that makes calls to
> the netCDF library.

Creating CDL (and running it through ncgen) should be easy enough, possibly with help from the netcdfgroup. But your new wording seems fine to me.

>
> 6) Do we have any guarantees that those expected to test proposed
> changes using the CF checker and libcf will have the resources (i.e.,
> time) to do this in a reasonable time frame?

I think there are really no guarantees. But if a proposal cant eventually attract 2 implementations, seems like theres a problem.
Received on Thu Jul 05 2007 - 14:32:27 BST