I/we still own (I think) cfconventions.org ... let me know when we should point it elsewhere from it's current home at llnl.
Cheers Bryan On 10 March 2014 20:04, <[email protected]> wrote: > Several of us at LLNL agree that a github-based system is the way to go > for the CF Conventions. And the previous messages on this thread turn > out to be very timely! > > For background, over the last few months our Plone-based web site has > become unmaintainable as we lost infrastructure support. Just a few > days ago I gave up on fixing the system. Matthew Harris has been > working on a new web site, located mostly at github. It should be up > within a week. > > The CF Conventions "source code" has for many years been in in DocBook, > an xml dialect. It is presently kept in a Subversion repository. We > will very likely make this available on github. > > After the documents, the most important component of the CF Conventions > web site is the Trac issue-tracking system. Last week I migrated it to > a more recent version on a new machine. Over the next week I plan to > migrate it to the latest production version. This will continue to be > hosted at LLNL, but a link to it will be on the github site. > > I hope these changes will serve the CF community at least for the short > run, so we can think seriously about what systems to use in the long run. > > - Jeff Painter > > On 3/10/14 7:20 AM, Signell, Richard wrote: > > Richard, > > > > I think moving to github would be a huge improvement. The git model > > and the tools that github provides would make it much easier for other > > folks to propose changes, and for those changes to be reviewed, > > discussed and merged. I think Brian and a few others were also in > > favor when we discussed this last fall, but we lacked someone to carry > > the flag. > > > > -Rich > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Hattersley, Richard > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've recently been dipping into the UGRID conventions > >> (https://github.com/ugrid-conventions/ugrid-conventions) and was > struck by > >> how pleasant the editing/publishing workflow was. Clearly from a content > >> complexity point of view the UGRID conventions are smaller and simpler > than > >> CF so a direct comparison is not possible, but to help illustrate some > of > >> the possibilities I've prepared a cut-down demo version of the CF > >> conventions document using GitHub and "Read the Docs". > >> > >> The published versions of the demo are available from: > >> http://cf-conventions.readthedocs.org. I've set the default version to > 1.6, > >> but by using the options in the bottom-left corner of the page it is > >> possible to view 1.7-draft.1 instead. There is also a PDF option, but > that > >> currently has a few quirks which I've not attempted to address. NB. By > >> ticking a box in GitHub, these published versions are automatically > updated > >> whenever the underlying content changes. > >> > >> The underlying "source code" is defined using reStructuredText (reST) > markup > >> for processing by the Spinx document generator. It is hosted on GitHub > at: > >> https://github.com/cf-metadata/cf-conventions. I created the reST > markup > >> using an off-the-shelf HTML-to-reST converter but it did require some > >> subsequent manual tweaks. > >> > >> I've also created a simple "pull request" to illustrate what happens > when > >> someone proposes a change: > >> https://github.com/cf-metadata/cf-conventions/pull/1. NB. By default > GitHub > >> shows the changes in the source code, but it can also show a rendered > >> version of the changes, much like the strikeout/highlight style used in > the > >> current workflow: > >> > https://github.com/cf-metadata/cf-conventions/pull/show/1/files/e7c8459#diff-e7c84590262562a10e9fb4cf714098d3 > >> > >> Is there interest in taking this further? > >> > >> > >> Richard Hattersley > >> Benevolent Dictator of Iris - a CF library for Python: > >> www.scitools.org.uk/iris > >> Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom > >> Tel: +44 (0)1392 885702 > >> Email: [email protected] Web: www.metoffice.gov.uk > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > -- > 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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