Re: [h5md-user] H5MD developer's guide

[Konrad Hinsen]

Pierre de Buyl writes:

 > From experience, wikis very often get outdated.

My idea as not to keep a Wiki as permanent documentation, just as a
means to facilitate contribution. Once reasonably complete, this would
become just another page on the H5MD site.

 > Are there other alternatives to a wiki or to the single repository we have
 > now?

- Github, whose pull requests make contributions simpler.

- One of the EtherPad sites, e.g. http://etherpad.mozilla.org/,
  though in terms of formatting this is less straightforward to
  integrate into a Markdown- or ReST-based site later on.

 > In a very pragmatic way, I consider that providing H5MD implementations (in
 > Python and Fortran, from my side) is a more efficient way of communicating 
 > this.
 > The source code allows one to gather information on these practicalities.

Fine with me, but as far as I can tell, no implementation currently
supports all H5MD features from the specification. Ideally the
implementations should then have sufficient comments that explain why
certain approaches were chosen.

Konrad.
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