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Certainly the reduced frequency of releases, and the fairly obvious attempt to slow bug fixes/updates represents a strategy. I'm concerned that the attempt to make sure they maintain a stable financial footing is likely to cause them problems down the road. I agree with Roy, too. The mix they propose is only going to hurt the community overall. gerry On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Great points, Roy. We are discussing exactly these kinds of things > now. Any feedback from the community from the point of view of > netCDF-4 will certainly be welcome. > > I will say that because we role our own HDF reader, we likely won't be > able to support any enterprise only features of HDF5 in the > netCDF-Java stack unless we do a cleanroom implementation (ugh)...at > least that's from how I interpret the "[c]lients agree to not share > proprietary items, e.g. binaries, add-ons, documentation, etc." > statement from their FAQ. More to come, I'm certain. > > Sean > > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal > <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Sean: > > > > Thanks. This may cause a real conundrum. If you go with the Enterprise > version. people may not be able to build on their own if the only have the > Community Edition, as they might be differences that matter. If you go > with the Community edition, you will be late getting possibly important > patches. > > > > Can't say I have a good solution. was the first thing I thought of when > I saw the announcement. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Roy > > > > > >> On May 9, 2018, at 1:05 PM, Sean Arms <support-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> > >> RE: The HDF Group's announcement of an Enterprise Support Edition > >> > >> Unidata is evaluating ways to ensure ongoing support for HDF5-format > data > >> in netCDF, which will continue to be available to the community at no > cost. We > >> hope to be able to outline a way forward for netCDF shortly. > >> > >> For those who may have missed the announcement by the HDF Group > yesterday, > >> more details can be found here: > >> > >> https://www.hdfgroup.org/2018/05/announcing-development-of- > the-enterprise-support-edition-of-hdf5/ > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Unidata Support > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are > >> recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly > >> available through the web. Users who post to any of the lists we > >> maintain are reminded to remove any personal information that they > >> do not want to be made public. > >> > >> > >> thredds mailing list > >> thredds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > > > ********************** > > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > > ********************** > > Roy Mendelssohn > > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > > NOAA/NMFS > > Environmental Research Division > > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > > ***Note new street address*** > > 110 McAllister Way > > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > > Phone: (831)-420-3666 > > Fax: (831) 420-3980 > > e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > > "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" > -MLK Jr. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are > > recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly > > available through the web. Users who post to any of the lists we > > maintain are reminded to remove any personal information that they > > do not want to be made public. > > > > > > thredds mailing list > > thredds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > _______________________________________________ > NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are > recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly > available through the web. Users who post to any of the lists we > maintain are reminded to remove any personal information that they > do not want to be made public. > > > thredds mailing list > thredds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > -- Gerry Creager NSSL/CIMMS 405.325.6371 ++++++++++++++++++++++ “Big whorls have little whorls, That feed on their velocity; And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.” Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)
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