Robert Smith

Hi @bids-standard/maintainers, For ongoing work on BEP016, it would be useful to get some indication of whether or not this proposal is supported in principle. It drastically changes the landscape...

> I suspect that we're going to find some resistance to the idea of any increase in complexity This is a tough one. I agree that the policies of the...

> is there something that this relaxing of the inheritance principle allows us to do that we could not do with the current form of the principle? Yes. But to...

I also noted I missed one of @effigies's questions: > Do tool developers/maintainers agree that the algorithm proposed would be readily implemented in their packages? Over and above BIDS validation,...

> 4. Not using inheritance at all I'm not sure that it ever actually occurred to me TBH. In the case of purely informative but non-requisite metadata, there would be...

Another thought that crossed my mind in this respect, given the concerns regarding simplicity / accessibility: The inheritance principle, following #946 and accentuated further by this proposal, is quite formulaic...

> Are you still planning to do this? Will do once I get my head back above water :expressionless:

For anyone who is either invested in this concept or could not understand the justification for the proposed change, please see bids-standard/bids-bep016#50.

For anyone attempting to keep up with this discussion, the enhancement proposed by @yarikoptic has been attempted in https://github.com/Lestropie/bids-specification/pull/5.

@yarikoptic Finally got around to this; see https://github.com/Lestropie/bids-specification/pull/5.