Dear Rich We have the trac system for this reason - so that the discussion can be followed through a single thread. That works well, I think. The discussion about the charset proposal could move to trac.
With some technical effort, the trac system was set up so that all ticket updates are sent to everyone on the CF email list. I believe this is an important requirement, since we want the trac discussions to be inclusive, and people won't join in if they don't know they're going on. Can that be arranged with GitHub? What advantages would GitHub offer over trac? I don't think we should have any more channels for discussion; we could agree to replace trac with GitHub, but it wouldn't be a good idea to maintain both at once. Tanya Reshel at PCMDI is currently working on implementing the agreed trac tickets into 1.7. I'm glad to say we should have a new version soon! Best wishes Jonathan ----- Forwarded message from "Signell, Richard" <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:51:14 -0500 > From: "Signell, Richard" <[email protected]> > To: CF metadata <[email protected]> > Subject: [CF-metadata] Discussion of technical CF issues as GitHub issues? > > I was trying to catch up on "Pre-proposal for charset" conversation > and found it extremely challenging to ferret out the technical thread > of discussion from the numerous email threads, further obfuscated due > to mishmash of top posting, in line postings and quoted previous > emails. > > I couldn't help but imagine how much cleaner and easier to follow this > would have been as a GitHub issue. > > Does anyone else feel this way? > > Maybe we could just add a "CF-1" repo on > https://github.com/cf-convention and encourage folks to raise issues > there? > > Issues raised there could also be announced to the CF mailing list as > well, allowing those who wish to participate in the discussion to do > so and preventing the general list being bombarded with extensive > discussion they do not wish to participate in. > > Thoughts? > > 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
