Proposal: merge all into main and next steps to review the code

[MaxvdKolk]

I will attempt to merge most code in its current state into the dev branch. As there is currently a lot of code staged in these branches---much more than can be easily reviewed/updated---before/during merging, my proposal would be to simply merge it all into dev without much reorganisation.

My proposal would then be to do the following with the currently present code before adding much more:

• First we merge dev into main. This gives us a baseline of all the code that is present
• We review the code that is then present in main, and raise specific issues on the issue page regarding code that we think should improve/fix/change/etc
• We create solutions per issue on a separate branch and carefully review the code. Once the code is deemed OK, we merge that into main.

Once we are all OK on the current version in main, we can start to slowly add additional test problems?

Any thoughts @aatmdelissen @Giannis1993 @artofscience?

[Giannis1993]

Agree! My initial idea was to branch from dev and keep main more stable. Only after merging our dev-feature branches into dev we would merge dev into main (e.g. once per month). But definitely we need a starting branch since it has become quite messy.

[MaxvdKolk]

Yeah, that also makes sense. We might opt now to place it all in dev rather than what I proposed, and iterate on that branch. Once we are all kind of happy about the interfaces, lets merge it then into main as the first "real" baseline version. From that moment on, we can then either make branches that go directly into main for smaller features and work in dev for some large extensions.

In that way we could also do your approach, with monthly updates from dev to main for introducing bigger features/changes.

[MaxvdKolk]

Both #5 and #3 are now merged in to dev. I will add some issues based on current comments. Lets go from there.

[MaxvdKolk]

Added some issues that came to mind looking through the code. I would invite you to do the same and add issues to whatever pieces of code that could (or should :p) be changed. Lets try to fix some of those issues and finalise an initial version of the API doing so.

Once we have that, lets merge it all into main and see how we go from there.

[Giannis1993]

Done!