Re: [CF-metadata] provisional status for changes to the convention (Jonathan Gregory)

2015-02-04 Thread John Graybeal
Jonathan, thank you for your considered update. If we 'deprecate' a released version that has an error, presumably this just means it is no longer recommended for use? I assume data sets released with the flawed version shouldn't have to be re-released, if the flaw did not affect them. And

Re: [CF-metadata] provisional status for changes to the convention (Jonathan Gregory)

2015-02-04 Thread Schultz, Martin
Dear Jonathan, all, we have had this discussion about provisional status earlier, and I remember having received quite a bit of support for a proposal to have a provisional status with a fixed lifetime. I still believe this would be better than having to revert changes and create confusing