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Tools for analyzing collections of oceanographic Argo floats
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Should built in "index" dataset be named indexCore #544

Closed j-harbin closed 2 years ago

j-harbin commented 2 years ago

I don't think this issue is of high priority, but while getting ready for the workshop, one thought I had was that the index built in dataset should be named indexCore. My reasoning for this is that the other built-in datasets say what type of file their are (ie. bgc, deep, synthetic). Thoughts? Screen Shot 2022-03-25 at 1 28 50 PM

dankelley commented 2 years ago

My feeling is that the name is correct, although I would only say this at 0.7 on the usual -1 to +1 scale.

My reasons are:

  1. Change is bad. We have users, and we have docs, and we even have a paper. So the name should not change, because it might confuse people. However, to be frank, I do not think these built-in datasets are much use, because they will go out of date as e.g. realtime items might change to delayed mode.

  2. It sort of feels natural, by analogy to other things. A normal car is just called, maybe "Golf". The somewhat souped-up one is called "Golf-GTI" , and the really souped-up one is "Golf-R".

PS. I think they are no longer selling Golfs in the US, only GTI and R. I guess Americans hate hatchbacks, because they think trunks are better against thefts, or something.

j-harbin commented 2 years ago

I can agree with the points you presented above. I'll close this issue.