I/we still own (I think) cfconventions.org ... let me know when we should
point it elsewhere from it's current home at llnl.
Cheers
Bryan
On 10 March 2014 20:04, <painter1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> 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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