Stefan Appelhoff

> This also means that all bids software is tested only on these small examples? No, "BIDS software" is a broad term, and all software devs decide about their own...

congrats Dora, Tal, et al! > It seems like the discussion in the [electrophysiology derivatives](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmcVs7vg7Th-cGC-UrX8rAhKUHIzOI-uIOh69_mvdlw/edit#) was going for a Pythonic list of strings yes, this should be a link to...

Let me copy the discussion thread from the Gdoc here, perhaps that clarifies some things: --- @sappelhoff : >I think a "pythonic" way to specify channels would be nice. >...

> One further option, which perhaps the HED working group should discuss separately, is how HED might be used to define named groups of channels which could then be referred...

> For the format of this field a "pythonic list" has the downside of encouraging developers to do an [eval](https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval) which is not a safe practice. A comma separated list...

Let's continue the discussion in this dedicated issue, where I summarized the present situation: - https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/1446 this present PR is 1. buried in the examples repo 2. intended to achieve...

@tpatpa I rebased your branch on `bids-standard/bids-examples@master`. You will have to run the following command **locally** before you continue to work on this: `git fetch --all` and then `git reset...

I decided to go the deprecation route here. Let's discuss the "synonym" idea again when one of our supported manufacturers actually changes their name. The changes here are "bug fixes"....

cc @sjeung @JuliusWelzel who have thought about this / worked on this.

> Just to know: is it worth putting effort into creating regex that match the schema or wait for the validator to directly use the schema. I think at this...