Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread Klaus Zimmermann
Dear Jonathan, On 05/04/2019 14:16, Jonathan Gregory wrote: > Dear Mike and Klaus > > Thanks for your emails. I understand your points, but it seems to me that what > we have proposed will not make life significantly more difficult. > Specifically, > > (1) We propose to have one discuss

[CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Martin Yes, quite right, thanks. These instructions need to be updated. Best wishes Jonathan - Forwarded message from Martin Juckes - UKRI STFC - > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:35:38 + > From: Martin Juckes - UKRI STFC > To: "Signell, Richard" , Daniel Lee > > Cc:

Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Mike and Klaus Thanks for your emails. I understand your points, but it seems to me that what we have proposed will not make life significantly more difficult. Specifically, (1) We propose to have one discuss repository taking over all the functions of the current email list, which is for

Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread Mike Grant
[I'm personally happy with Github, but count as an interested person / long time lurker!] A lot of open source projects resolve this problem by splitting the conversation into two mailing lists. One is typically "-devel" for developers (in this case, anyone working on the standard or

Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread Klaus Zimmermann
Dear Jonathan, for what it's worth, I am with Chris on this one. Imho a mailing list is the right format to shoot a question when you don't yet know exactly the approach (is it a feature request? a bug? just a clarification?) and who exactly you should ask. This way you reach all interested

Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread David Hassell
Dear Jonathan, I wholly support your proposal. Many thanks, David On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 16:57, Jonathan Gregory wrote: > Dear all > > As you know, CF currently uses this email list for discussion of standard > name > proposals and all other matters except for proposals to change the >

Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub

2019-04-05 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear Chris GitHub can fulfil the same function of discussion as the email list, through discussion on an issue, which can be done entirely by email once the issue has been opened on GitHub. GitHub will send the comments on the issues to the LLNL CF email list, so that they will continued to be