[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 proposing changes) and one "-users" for people seeking help or wanting to report an issue, but not wanting to get involved in the details. Typically some/many of the dev people sit on both lists and redirect misplaced conversations to the correct list.
Perhaps a possible compromise here would be to move all the -devel conversation onto Github in an organised fashion as proposed and create a -users mailing list explicitly just for queries?
Cheers,
Mike.
-----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
>> 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.
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