1. CF Conventions Support at PCMDI Kyle Halliday June 19, 2006 UCRL-PRES-XXXXXX http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cf

2. GO-ESSP 2 Overview l Inventory of current CF Website l Requirements for new CF Website l General Approach

3. GO-ESSP 3 Inventory of Current CF Website l News l Documents —CF Conventions —CF Standard Name table l Conformance —Requirements & Recommendations —CF Compliance Checker l Mailing List —Archives

4. GO-ESSP 4 Requirements for New CF Website l Primary Goals: —Enhance the discussion capability —Collaborative editing capabilities —Document revision tracking

5. GO-ESSP 5 Enhanced Discussion Capability l Current Mailing list —Simple and powerful —But… –Archives are not readily searchable –All message are sent to all members –Concept of “discussion thread” is loosely defined –Concept of “discussion state” is loosely defined l Replace with Trac – issue tracking system that can be customized to CF

6. GO-ESSP 6 Collaborative Editing Capability l Content Management System (CMS) —Distributed community can directly contribute to the website l Plone CMS —Easy to use, open-source

7. GO-ESSP 7 Document Revision Tracking l Revision Control System l Subversion —Designed for source code management, but can handle any plain text file (or binary file, though it’s harder to visualize binary diffs) —Documents can be maintained in DocBook XML or LaTeX, then “compiled” to PDF, PostScript, HTML, etc… —Integration with Trac

8. GO-ESSP 8 Plone Website – Home Page

9. GO-ESSP 9 Plone Website – GUI Editor

10. GO-ESSP 10 Plone Website – Standard Names

11. GO-ESSP 11 Trac – Discussions

12. GO-ESSP 12 Trac – Partial Discussion

13. GO-ESSP 13 Trac – Subversion Repository

14. GO-ESSP 14 Trac – Revision History

15. GO-ESSP 15 Links l PCMDI —http://www-pcmdi.llnl.govhttp://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov l Current CF Website —http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/ l Prototype CF Website —http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cfhttp://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cf l Plone —http://plone.org/http://plone.org/ l Trac —http://www.edgewall.com/trac/http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ l Subversion —http://subversion.tigris.org/http://subversion.tigris.org/