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This index is a static HTML page copied and edited from the output of a Trac query. The CF Trac website is no longer active. The index and archive of tickets have been edited to remove #120-#122 and #124-#137 because these were spam.
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This page is an archive copy of the former CF Metadata Trac site, which is no longer active. The Trac site was used until July 2018 for discussion of enhancements to the CF convention. New proposals are now discussed in GitHub.
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For historical interest, information about how the former CF Metadata Trac site was set up and used can be found here.
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This index is a static HTML page copied and edited from the output of a Trac query. The index and archive of tickets have been edited to remove #120-#122 and #124-#137 because these were spam.
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## CF Trac Website
This page is an archive copy, kept only for historical interest, of information about the former [CF Metadata Trac](Data/trac.html) site, which itself also is now kept only as an archive.
The Trac site was used until July 2018 for discussion of enhancements to the CF convention.
New proposals are now [discussed in GitHub](discussion.md).
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The following information should be read in the past tense.
## How the Ticket System Works
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* General discussion took place and standard names were proposed on the [cf-metadata mailing list][archives] ([original at NCAR][NCAR_archives]) until December 2019, when these functions migrated to GitHub `discuss` issues.
-* Changes to the conventions were proposed on the [CF Metadata Trac][about] site from October 2006 until July 2018, when these functions migrated to GitHub `conventions` issues. Before October 2006, when CF Metadata Trac was introduced, changes to the conventions were proposed on the cf-metadata mailing list.
+* Changes to the conventions were proposed on the [CF Metadata Trac][trac] site from October 2006 until July 2018, when these functions migrated to GitHub `conventions` issues. Before October 2006, when CF Metadata Trac was introduced, changes to the conventions were proposed on the cf-metadata mailing list.
[github_conventions]: https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues