Re: [h5md-user] H5MD 1.1 roadmap

[Pierre de Buyl]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 05:02:52PM -0500, Peter Colberg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:16:46PM +0000, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> > For the propositions, I think that this list is the way to go. Create a 
> > thread with the
> > proposal number in the subject. I was also thinking of github pull requests 
> > but they
> > cannot be archived properly. If you do it this way, the person who closes 
> > the pull
> > request could just copy the discussion in a message here.
> 
> From my experience as a user contributing commits to the Julia HDF5
> module, what makes pull requests especially useful is the automated
> execution of the test suite.
> 
> I am wondering what a test suite for the H5MD specification could
> look like, without producing too much of a maintainance burden (and
> distracting from the actual implementation in simulation software).

Well, as the specification is stored textually in a text file, I don't see very
well how that could be achieved unnless we switch to a machine based format that
would describe the specification. I am not volunteering to do that :-)

Were you thinking of something else?

P