Several of us at LLNL agree that a github-based system is the way to go
for the CF Conventions. And the previous messages on this thread turn
out to be very timely!
For background, over the last few months our Plone-based web site has
become unmaintainable as we lost infrastructure support. Just a few
days ago I gave up on fixing the system. Matthew Harris has been
working on a new web site, located mostly at github. It should be up
within a week.
The CF Conventions "source code" has for many years been in in DocBook,
an xml dialect. It is presently kept in a Subversion repository. We
will very likely make this available on github.
After the documents, the most important component of the CF Conventions
web site is the Trac issue-tracking system. Last week I migrated it to
a more recent version on a new machine. Over the next week I plan to
migrate it to the latest production version. This will continue to be
hosted at LLNL, but a link to it will be on the github site.
I hope these changes will serve the CF community at least for the short
run, so we can think seriously about what systems to use in the long run.
- Jeff Painter
On 3/10/14 7:20 AM, Signell, Richard wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I think moving to github would be a huge improvement. The git model
> and the tools that github provides would make it much easier for other
> folks to propose changes, and for those changes to be reviewed,
> discussed and merged. I think Brian and a few others were also in
> favor when we discussed this last fall, but we lacked someone to carry
> the flag.
>
> -Rich
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Hattersley, Richard
> <richard.hattersley at metoffice.gov.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've recently been dipping into the UGRID conventions
>> (https://github.com/ugrid-conventions/ugrid-conventions) and was struck by
>> how pleasant the editing/publishing workflow was. Clearly from a content
>> complexity point of view the UGRID conventions are smaller and simpler than
>> CF so a direct comparison is not possible, but to help illustrate some of
>> the possibilities I've prepared a cut-down demo version of the CF
>> conventions document using GitHub and "Read the Docs".
>>
>> The published versions of the demo are available from:
>> http://cf-conventions.readthedocs.org. I've set the default version to 1.6,
>> but by using the options in the bottom-left corner of the page it is
>> possible to view 1.7-draft.1 instead. There is also a PDF option, but that
>> currently has a few quirks which I've not attempted to address. NB. By
>> ticking a box in GitHub, these published versions are automatically updated
>> whenever the underlying content changes.
>>
>> The underlying "source code" is defined using reStructuredText (reST) markup
>> for processing by the Spinx document generator. It is hosted on GitHub at:
>> https://github.com/cf-metadata/cf-conventions. I created the reST markup
>> using an off-the-shelf HTML-to-reST converter but it did require some
>> subsequent manual tweaks.
>>
>> I've also created a simple "pull request" to illustrate what happens when
>> someone proposes a change:
>> https://github.com/cf-metadata/cf-conventions/pull/1. NB. By default GitHub
>> shows the changes in the source code, but it can also show a rendered
>> version of the changes, much like the strikeout/highlight style used in the
>> current workflow:
>> https://github.com/cf-metadata/cf-conventions/pull/show/1/files/e7c8459#diff-e7c84590262562a10e9fb4cf714098d3
>>
>> Is there interest in taking this further?
>>
>>
>> Richard Hattersley
>> Benevolent Dictator of Iris - a CF library for Python:
>> www.scitools.org.uk/iris
>> Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom
>> Tel: +44 (0)1392 885702
>> Email: richard.hattersley at metoffice.gov.uk Web: www.metoffice.gov.uk
>>
>>
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