On 18 March 2016 at 20:35, Chris Barker chris.barker@noaa.gov wrote:
In theory, this makes sense to me. What it needs is someone to champion it.
Isn't that what this conversation is doing? :-)
Not really. By "champion" I mean "take the lead" - i.e., pull together all the arguments, summarise them, produce a proposal, write a patch (or get someone else to write it) create the tracker item, get a core dev to support it and shepherd it through to being committed. At the moment, all we're doing is discussing possibilities, nobody's stepped up to take the lead. I get the feeling that some participants in the discussion might think that discussion is enough, but I've seen too many of these threads fizzle out because no-one is interested enough, or has enough time, to do the hard bits.
I just wanted to be clear that I started this thread for a *different* proposal, which came to a conclusion that I plan (other commitments permitting) to get implemented. But I'm *not* sufficiently interested in this new proposal to take it forward, so someone else will need to step up at some point if the idea is to go anywhere.
Paul