**Overview** I would to suggest, as a result of having spoken to various people about this, that we move the conformance document (https://github.com/cf-convention/Conformance/blob/master/conformance.adoc) to this repository.
**Why?** Many enhancements to the CF conventions require changes to the conformance document. At present, theses must be submitted as a separate pull request to the https://github.com/cf-convention/Conformance repository. As a result, changes to the the conformance document are currently more likely to get overlooked and entail more work. If the conformance document lives in this repository then one pull request can contain the enhancement and its conformances, reducing work and improving provenenance. **Detailed proposal** There would be no change to conformance document's status as an independent entity (http://cfconventions.org/Conformance/conformance.html). The only change would be that the `conformance.adoc` file will live in this repository instead of its current location. No existing files in this repository need to be changed. The change would happen at the time of the release of CF-1.8. The existing https://github.com/cf-convention/Conformance repository will remain as an archive of changes to the conformance document for all versions up to and including CF1.8. All conformance changes for enhancements that make it into CF-1.9 will be recorded in the new https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/conformance.adoc file. Please let me know what you think about this suggestion. Many thanks, David -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/221 This list forwards relevant notifications from Github. It is distinct from [email protected], although if you do nothing, a subscription to the UCAR list will result in a subscription to this list. To unsubscribe from this list only, send a message to [email protected].
