This repository contains the official source of the CF metadata conventions. The source files are built into HTML automatically when changes are merged into this repository. The latest build of the specification is held in the gh-pages branch and can be seen here.

For the official web site please visit: https://cfconventions.org and the corresponding GitHub organisation.

Contributing to the CF Conventions

The CF Conventions are changed by changing the source files in this repository. The rules for doing this are set forth on the CF website. Their implementation in GitHub is described in this repository's CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Building the HTML

To convert the AsciiDoc files into the resulting HTML file:

1. Ensure you have Ruby installed (e.g. sudo apt install ruby)
2. Ensure you have a recent version of Asciidoctor installed (e.g. gem install asciidoctor)
3. Ensure you have Make installed (e.g. sudo apt install make)
4. Get hold of the AsciiDoc files in this repo (e.g. git clone git@github.com:cf-convention/cf-conventions.git)
5. Therare different options to make the conventions and conformance documents:
   • (All, the default) HTML and PDF conventions and conformance documents: make or make all
   • HTML conventions and conformance documents: make html
   • PDF conventions and conformance documents: make pdf
   • Conventions documents (HTML and PDF): make conventions
   • Conformance documents (HTML and PDF): make conformance
   • Delete documents and build directories: make clean
   • Build with FINAL tag and date stamp (remember to update version in version.adoc file ): make CF_FINAL=True

Both HTML documents are build with images embeded into the .html file.

The build documents will be rendered into local paths:

• conventions_build/cf-conventions.html
• conventions_build/cf-conventions.pdf
• conformance_build/conformance.html
• conformance_build/conformance.pdf

See the GitHub help pages and plethora of other git/GitHub guides for more details on how to work with repos, forks, pull requests, etc.

Latest Spec Build

Whenever a pull request is merged, a travis-ci build generates the latest specification draft and adds it to the gh-pages branch here. The gh-pages branch is deployed to github pages at the following documents:

• https://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/cf-conventions.html
• https://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/cf-conventions.pdf
• https://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/conformance.html
• https://cfconventions.org/cf-conventions/conformance.pdf

These documents are linked in the cf-conventions web site. source here which is published to: https://cfconventions.org/. The latest spec documents are linked from those web pages here: https://cfconventions.org/latest.html.