CF is carrying out a trial (beginning in March 2024) of using the CF GitHub organization Discussions for announcements relevant to CF, community discussion of comments and ideas for changing CF, and for questions and answers about how to use CF.
Announcements, discussions and Q&A that were initiated before the trial of CF GitHub Discussions began are continuing as GitHub issues in the discuss repository. (These might later be moved to GitHub Discussions if the trial is successful.)
Proposals for changing CF are discussed as GitHub issues in three repositories:
For proposing additions or amendments to standard names, their definitions, or other CF controlled vocabulary (area types and standardized regions).
As well as in GitHub issues, the status of proposals about standard names is shown by the CEDA vocabulary editor. To see a list of resolved proposals (accepted or rejected) for standard names from March 2011 onwards, click “Inactive” in the CEDA vocabulary editor
For proposing enhancements and reporting defects in the CF conventions.
Closed issues: change agreed, agreement not to change, dormant i.e. the discussion on a proposed change did not reach a conclusion. Dormant issues may be reopened if there is a new impetus or ideas that might help bring about an agreement.
For discussing, proposing changes and reporting defects in the CF website or CF governance.
No registration with CF is required to contribute; all that is needed is a freely available GitHub account.
Before the CF community migrated to GitHub, general and standard-name discussion took place on the cf-metadata mailing list, and enhancements to the conventions were proposed on the CF Metadata Trac site.
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