Hi Rich I'd vote for this. I think it would be an excellent idea. Bryan
On 27 September 2013 19:03, <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark & CF community, > > I agree that it would be great to allow a larger group of folks with > time and interest to help out and get CF-1.7 out of the gates. > > I wonder if we might also take this opportunity to consider more > radical options to increase participation, like setting up a > CF-Conventions organization on Github and moving the conventions > there. > > The git model and the tools that github provides would make it much > easier for other folks to contribute changes and for those changes to > be reviewed, discussed and merged. > > Recently we moved the UGRID conventions from a Confluence wiki > < > http://publicwiki.deltares.nl/display/NETCDF/Deltares+CF+proposal+for+Unstructured+Grid+data+model > > > to github > < > https://github.com/ugrid-conventions/ugrid-conventions/blob/master/README.md > > > and I was surprised at how easy it was. > > I haven't moved trac tickets to github but it looks like many other > projects have and there are tools to do it (e.g. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6671584/how-to-export-trac-to-github-issues > ) > > What do folks think about this? > > Thanks > -Rich > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Hedley, Mark > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the need for CF 1.7 is clear. There are a lot of agreed tickets > to process. > > > > I am particularly concerned by the comment: > > "Making a new version of CF depends on Jeff Painter or a colleague at > PCMDI having time to do it, I presume." > > > > I am worried that this factor is a barrier to publishing the updated > conventions document. > > > > The source for the conventions document is under source control and > published here: > > https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/browser/cf-conventions > > https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/browser/cf-conventions/trunk > > > > I would think that a number of community members would be happy to take > a ticket and a branch and input the required changes. This can then be > reviewed and approved as part of closing the ticket. > > > > All that would be required to make a start on this would be for people > to volunteer and be given access to the source control system with the > ability to make branches. Access should be easy as I guess all interested > parties already have a Trac account. A smaller group with merge rights to > the trunk would be needed to review and merge changes. > > > > I am happy to put myself forward to do a bit of this work; if a number > of us muck in, I think we should be able to get 1.7 up to scratch in a > fairly short amount of time. > > > > Are there others in the community who could offer a little of their time > to contribute to such an effort? > > > > mark > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: CF-metadata [[email protected]] on behalf of > Jonathan Gregory [[email protected]] > > Sent: 13 September 2013 10:35 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [CF-metadata] Can we please close ticket 93 and modify the > latest CF document accordingly? > > > > Dear Rich > > > > There are a lot of tickets which have been agreed and should therefore > be in > > the next version of the CF standard. They are all the ones shown in > green in > > http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~david/cf_trac_summary.html, including > ticket 93. > > > > Making a new version of CF depends on Jeff Painter or a colleague at > PCMDI > > having time to do it, I presume. I agree we need a new one, because > there are > > a lot of concluded tickets, and it's two years since CF 1.6 was > published. We > > do not close the tickets until the new version of CF is published which > > includes them, because the process isn't finished until then. In CF 1.7, > the > > history will be updated to list all the tickets which were enacted in it. > > > > However, even without a new version of CF, it can be assumed that ticket > 93 > > (and all the other concluded ones) will be part of CF 1.7. Software > developers > > can act on that assumption. > > > > Cheers > > > > Jonathan > > > > ----- Forwarded message from "Signell, Richard" <[email protected]> > ----- > > > >> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:59:39 -0400 > >> From: "Signell, Richard" <[email protected]> > >> To: CF metadata <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [CF-metadata] Can we please close ticket 93 and modify the > latest CF > >> document accordingly? > >> > >> CF Folks, > >> > >> The Iris project would like to add support for the > >> "ocean_s_coordinate_g1" and "ocean_s_coordinate_g2" coordinate that > >> was described in this enhancement ticket for CF 1.7: > >> > >> https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/93 > >> > >> The last comment in this ticket is 11 months ago by Jonathan Gregory > >> saying that these enhancements should be added to the next release of > >> CF. Can these please be added to the CF 1.7 draft document and the > >> ticket closed? > >> > >> (I see the "latest CF document" is 2011-12-05 16:44 , so that's > >> perhaps why this change didn't get added? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Rich > >> > >> -- > >> Dr. Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 > >> USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. > >> Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CF-metadata mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > > CF-metadata mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > _______________________________________________ > > CF-metadata mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > > > > -- > Dr. Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 > USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. > Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > -- > Scanned by iCritical. > -- Bryan Lawrence University of Reading: Professor of Weather and Climate Computing. National Centre for Atmospheric Science: Director of Models and Data. STFC: Director of the Centre for Environmental Data Archival. Ph: +44 118 3786507 or 1235 445012; Web:home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence
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