Q from pub department about versioning

[amilan17]

Question regarding the meaning of F in the versioning: A renaming or removal in the WMO Notification Message encoding SHALL result in a major version update.

"Just clarifying meaning here: should “in” be “of”? i.e. is it the WMO Notification Message encoding itself that is renamed or removed? The way it is currently written suggests that something contained inside the message encoding is renamed/removed."

1.4 Versioning
The topic hierarchy version helps data providers and data consumers with change management and transition in relation to updates.
Requirement 4   /req/core/versioning
A   A minor version SHALL NOT result in any changes to the version level.
B   A major version SHALL result in a change to the version level (for example, a becomes b).
C   Removal of a topic at any level SHALL result in a major version update.
D   Renaming of a topic at any level SHALL result in a major version update.
E   A change in the structure of the topic hierarchy SHALL result in a major version update.
F   A renaming or removal in  the WMO Notification Message encoding SHALL result in a major version update.

[amilan17]

@antje-s -- do you have a minute to comment on this?

[antje-s]

The WNM format itself changed (deleted or updated fieldnames, added fields are unproblematic)

[amilan17]

@antje-s Thank you.

[tomkralidis]

Thanks @antje-s. Yes "in" is intended.