I think the need for CF 1.7 is clear. There are a lot of agreed tickets to process.
I am particularly concerned by the comment:
"Making a new version of CF depends on Jeff Painter or a colleague at PCMDI having time to do it, I presume."
I am worried that this factor is a barrier to publishing the updated conventions document.
The source for the conventions document is under source control and published here:
https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/browser/cf-conventions
https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/browser/cf-conventions/trunk
I would think that a number of community members would be happy to take a ticket and a branch and input the required changes. This can then be reviewed and approved as part of closing the ticket.
All that would be required to make a start on this would be for people to volunteer and be given access to the source control system with the ability to make branches. Access should be easy as I guess all interested parties already have a Trac account. A smaller group with merge rights to the trunk would be needed to review and merge changes.
I am happy to put myself forward to do a bit of this work; if a number of us muck in, I think we should be able to get 1.7 up to scratch in a fairly short amount of time.
Are there others in the community who could offer a little of their time to contribute to such an effort?
mark
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From: CF-metadata [cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu] on behalf of Jonathan Gregory [j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk]
Sent: 13 September 2013 10:35
To: cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu
Subject: [CF-metadata] Can we please close ticket 93 and modify the latest CF document accordingly?
Dear Rich
There are a lot of tickets which have been agreed and should therefore be in
the next version of the CF standard. They are all the ones shown in green in
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~david/cf_trac_summary.html, including ticket 93.
Making a new version of CF depends on Jeff Painter or a colleague at PCMDI
having time to do it, I presume. I agree we need a new one, because there are
a lot of concluded tickets, and it's two years since CF 1.6 was published. We
do not close the tickets until the new version of CF is published which
includes them, because the process isn't finished until then. In CF 1.7, the
history will be updated to list all the tickets which were enacted in it.
However, even without a new version of CF, it can be assumed that ticket 93
(and all the other concluded ones) will be part of CF 1.7. Software developers
can act on that assumption.
Cheers
Jonathan
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> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:59:39 -0400
> From: "Signell, Richard" <rsignell at usgs.gov>
> To: CF metadata <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>
> Subject: [CF-metadata] Can we please close ticket 93 and modify the latest CF
> document accordingly?
>
> CF Folks,
>
> The Iris project would like to add support for the
> "ocean_s_coordinate_g1" and "ocean_s_coordinate_g2" coordinate that
> was described in this enhancement ticket for CF 1.7:
>
> https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/93
>
> The last comment in this ticket is 11 months ago by Jonathan Gregory
> saying that these enhancements should be added to the next release of
> CF. Can these please be added to the CF 1.7 draft document and the
> ticket closed?
>
> (I see the "latest CF document" is 2011-12-05 16:44 , so that's
> perhaps why this change didn't get added?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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