Kyle Beauchamp

My gut feeling is not in 2016 or 2017. Maybe 2018? I do see the advantage in signing the pledge with a far-off date as a way to "remind" others...

There are also several infrastructure projects that have not yet been ported. See, e.g., http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-June/097930.html

1. Are there parallel backends for netCDF that would also allow parallelism without a refactor? 2. You might want to copy some ideas from xarray, which is now used by...

I am not a lawyer, but shouldn't we be avoiding this patent with a 10 foot pole? I thought even reading the patent puts us at risk of a civil...

I realize that the "clean room" stuff is more for copyright infringement, but still AFAIK we can't implement and distribute their patented algorithm.

Sounds good. Sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry with these things, if only as a way to avoid having to deal with legal headaches / timesinks.

Will check tonight

Removing those properties SGTM. I agree they are incomplete characterizations that lack the autocorrelation contribution, although I wonder if they could still be useful for rough, back-of-the-envelope performance tuning. In...

So my experimental warning is triggered multiple times along the subclass hierarchy, which is a minor nit but possibly annoying during tests.

Regarding removal of old GHMCIntegrator: is there any reason to keep that as a "Reference Implementation" for testing? Not sure.