[Gdal-dev] Another NetCDF driver bug fix

[Rich Signell]

Frank,

What do you think about asking the Unidata and/or CF folks if they are
interested in taking responsibility for the NetCDF driver?

There has been a lot of discussion and interest lately on geospatial
referencing conventions for NetCDF, and GDAL is a nice test
application.

-Rich

On 10/17/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Joaquim Luis wrote:
> > Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >>
> >> Joaquim,
> >>
> >> I believe we need someone to step up and take ownership of the netcdf
> >> driver.  It seems that Denis Nadeau does not have the time to do a lot of
> >> new work on it, and I have been trying to duck these issues.  Are you
> >> interested in taking on responsibility for it?
> >
> > Frank,
> > I'm honored and willing to help but I think you overestimated my
> > programing skills.
> > I must warn you (and the others) that I can more or less read C++ but
> > that is not a language that I practice.
> > So, I can give my contribution but don't know if that is enough to say
> > that I'll be responsible
> > for the driver.
>
> Joaquim,
>
> Assuming this isn't false modesty, it might be better if you acted as
> tester and perhaps providing some patches rather than taking on primary
> responsibility.
>
> Paavo Jumppanen has proposed some substantial upgrades to the netcdf
> driver ...   too comprehensive for me to make a quick analysis.  Perhaps
> you could try integrating them in a local build and test them to see if
> they seem appropriate?
>
>    http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1808
>
> Best regards,
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