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 parties by the standard means of communication.
An issue on github is great to preserve history and progress of, well,
issues, such as bug reports and feature requests, typically with a
rather small subset of interested people.
Cheers
Klaus
On 05/04/2019 12:30, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> 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 distributed by email for
> existing subscribers. (Those who wish can unsubscribe from the email list and
> watch the GitHub repositories instead.)
>
> Does that sound all right to you?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jonathan
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov> -----
>
>> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 03:37:32 +0200
>> From: Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
>> To: Daniel Lee <Daniel.Lee at eumetsat.int>
>> Cc: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk>, "cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu"
>> <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] proposed migration of these discussions to GitHub
>>
>> I?m a big gitHub fan. But:
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> * We won't have to maintain a CF email list,
>>
>> This list is also used to ask questions about how to best use the CF
>> conventions, not just changes to CF.
>>
>> And a list IS a good way to facilitate those conversations.
>>
>> I also think it might bd good to have a list that recurved
>> notifications of new discussion ? though not every post!
>>
>> Still a listserve fan,
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>>>> which is an administrative
>>>> complexity, especially as we currently have two different lists (for trac and
>>>> email), which have to be kept consistent manually. Anyone can join GitHub
>>>> for themselves and watch the CF repositories.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes and thanks for your interest in CF
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To get a username on GitHub, go to https://github.com/ and sign up. This is
>>>> free! Once you have a username, you can sign in.
>>>>
>>>> The issues on the CF conventions repository are at
>>>> https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues
>>>> This shows the list of changes to 1.7 which are being discussed. (NB the name
>>>> of this repository will probably change, to improve consistency, and this is not
>>>> the repository for the standard name discussions, which we have not yet
>>>> created.) If you wanted to start a new issue, which is like a new email thread
>>>> e.g. for a standard name proposal, you would click the "New issue" button,
>>>> and get from there to a web form where you type plain text, and then
>>>> "Submit" it.
>>>>
>>>> To comment on an issue (like replying to an email thread) you click on the
>>>> issue, go the bottom of the page, write in the box, and press "Comment".
>>>>
>>>> To receive emails containing comments on any of the issues contributed by
>>>> others, you can "watch" the repository, by clicking on the drop-down menu
>>>> labelled "Watch" at the top of the page, with an icon like an eye. When you
>>>> receive such an email, you can reply to it and your reply will be posted to the
>>>> issue. (It tells you at the bottom of the email that you can do this, and gives
>>>> you the URL of the comment that's been sent in the the email in case you
>>>> want to do it on GitHub.)
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