[GRASS-dev] Added i.landsat8.swlst in grass-addons

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net>
>>> -        The k-flag (keep current computational region) is invers to
>>> GRASS standards. Maybe better to switch the behavior?
>>
>> Not sure.  It's kind of related to the #1 mistake everyone does, forget
>> setting the right region extent.  So, I'd thought of letting the module
>> operate on the whole scene.
>
> Then really all GRASS modules should be changed.

Yeah, probably not :-)

>> Do we have a reference for this ("GRASS standards") or you
>> mean the "common" behaviour of most modules?
>
> No. Perhaps we need another Submitting page on Trac or perhaps just adding a
> best practice to the main Submitting page.

Here you go:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Submitting/General#Modulebehaviour:computationalregionsettings

> This particular thing should be also somewhere in the user documentation
> (which obviously should be followed when developing a new module). It seems
> that g.region man page uses outdated terminology and doesn't do a good job
> on describing this behavior. Anyone, please contribute a better text.

It could be taken from here:

https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Computational_region

Markus