2022 05 19

Environmental Data Retrieval API SWG Meeting 77

14:00 UTC (08:00 MDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 22:00 CST, Friday 01:00 AEDT)

Agenda

• Agree Agenda and IPR Call
• Minutes/Notes of previous meeting

Status: EDR

Progress in the last month:

• EDR API Specification:
  • Version 1.0.1 finalised, editorial changes by Gobe
  • V1.0.2 editorial improvements fold into V1.1
  • V1.1 in development
• Outstanding Issues:
• Outstanding Pull Requests:
• Compliance Test Suite:
• API coordination:
  • Need to advertise EDR Custom dimensions
• Update other Documentation on GitHub:

Plans for next month:

• Corrections: V1.0.1 to be published
• V1.1 review by OAB
• Outreach:

Longer Term Plans:

• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.1
  • HTTP POST, Categorical/Custom dimensions agreed
• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.2
  • nothing agreed
• Version 2.x: Not envisaged

Risks:

Any Other Business:

Date of Next Meeting: 2022-05-26 14:00 - 15:00 UTC

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Minutes

Attendees:

• Chris Little (Met Office)
• Steve Olson (NOAA)
• Mark Burgoyne (Met Office)
• Kyle Onda (USGS)
• David Blodgett (USGS)
• Tom Kralidis (MSC)

Agenda: agreed

IPR Call: done

Minutes/Notes of previous meeting: agreed

Progress in the last month:

• EDR API Specification:
  • Outstanding Issues: Everything tagged. V1.0.1 all closed
  • Outstanding Pull Requests: two PR need re-basing as conflicts present. Review and merge at next meeting
• Compliance Test Suite:
• API coordination:
  • Propose Schema Bundling as a good practice
• Update other Documentation on GitHub:
  • FAQ to be done

Plans for next month:

• Corrections: V1.0.1 to be published
• Outreach:

Longer Term Plans:

• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.1
  • HTTP POST, Categorical/Custom dimensions agreed
  • Deep discussion on categorical dimensions - should behave like time or vertical. Need experience.
  • Extended discussion on aggregation along a dimension versus using CQL. Consensus on simple stats only across complete domain only.
• Non-breaking changes and enhancements: Version 1.2
  • nothing agreed
• Version 2.x: Not envisaged

Risks:

Any Other Business:

• agreed to improve GitHub project structure

Date of Next Meeting: 2022-05-26 14:00 - 15:00 UTC