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,
> >>
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