Telco 20250213

Date

Thursday, 13th Feb, 15:00 UTC

Connect

Agenda

Present

SB, AB, RB, HB, FS, PC, BW, WdN, ZM, PM + LukasP, MarkusK (FAIRmat)

Minutes

  • | Webpage migration to wiki

  • RB: the PR is still in progress

  • PC: there are missing links

  • | Voting Procedure

  • AB: not all failing should have failed. why were we short of votes

  • RB: missed the call, and so voted too late

  • BW: it was difficult also in the past to call people

  • AB: being a member means a responsibility for voting. Shall be asked if they want to be members

  • BW: culture has changed. Quorum requirement has added to keep robustness of the standard.

  • AB: Do we want to keep the quorum?

    1: Y (SB; HB yes, but smaller) 2: N (BW no, majority is enough)

  • SB: Quorum is good, but not voting shall be considered as abstain

  • MarkusK: people may not vote because the topic is off from their expertise and field.

  • AB: yes, but members shall still take their responsibilities towards NIAC. We should approach those not voting.

  • AB: online vote period is not for discussion, but for voting.

  • SB: agreed, but these topics shall be reviewed after the vote

  • BW: agreed, but new ideas may result in a better solution, so new vote shall be put on

  • LukasP: May putting comments mean a NO vote? Is there a clear rule on it?

  • BW: maybe NIAC meeting with no quorum restriction could be held more frequently. In between, suggestion would not go to main, but to staging.

  • AB: on codecamps, quorum was difficult to get.

  • SB: those not voting in the given period (maybe 2 weeks is too small?), should be treated as abstain

  • AB: min 2 week, max 1 month

  • BW: it may not help if people simply do not show up

  • HB: allow designating a proxy if someone cannot vote

  • | PRs

  • 1408

    • PM: I agree, my comments are not blocking. Only improvements on documentation (e.g. diagnostic point)

    • BW: instead of “diagnostic point”, “location”

    • LukasP: “location” is also fine.

    • PM: agreed

    • BW: let us run a new vote

    • SB: after the modification, we can run a vote

  • 1519

    • SB: it has the Quorum now (after having the late vote from RB)

    • LukasP: for Heike’s comment: reference can be changed to a cheaper book

    • PC: yes, we can rerun the vote

    • SB: after the requested modification, we can run a vote

  • 1528

    • PM: I checked and found other examples of use _value, so it should be OK as proposed. Let us just rerun the vote.

    • BW: _value can actually be omitted

    • PC: nameType=specified should be added to K_p

    • SB: after the requested modifications, we can run a vote

  • 1415

    • WdN: What is it more than NXtransformations?

    • SB: it is a base of change in a single Group, and it also informs about the handedness of the coordinate system

    • PM: allows

    • LukasP: In XPS, ISO standard uses left handed system, in NeXus it was not available until now.

    • MarkusK: NXrotation_convention is an implementation of a community standard from materials engineering.

    • WdN: Let me make a small prototype for the usefulness of the proposal.

    • SB: after the requested modifications, and a positive feedback from WdN, we can run a vote

  • | Checking votes

for n in 2667156080 2667156866 2667157297;
do curl -L -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" https://api.github.com/repos/nexusformat/definitions/issues/comments/$n/reactions | jq '.[] | "\(.user.login) \(.content)"';
done;