ideas for cloud data hosting request form

[aradhakrishnanGFDL]

(Please redirect me as needed to the appropriate GitHub repository..)

I am looking for simple, robust ideas from the Pangeo developers based on your experience on setting up a data request form. The context being, under the ASDI initiative..and collaborating with Pangeo, we are working on populating S3 with CMIP6 data (from the ESGF archive). We are looking into mechanisms one could use efficiently to record user requests in terms of what other publicly available CMIP6 data they'd like in S3.

I see this-
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFjA5IddqBs2Rc0xGbzn32NPq12TKr-b-8KGtXWyNDK5sJCg/viewform

Any other ideas? GitHub repo/issue tracking/discussions- so new users can browse through old requests that were complete or not for various reasons?

Your thoughts are appreciated.

[naomi-henderson]

@aradhakrishnanGFDL , we also have an experimental page so users can see their requests being filled, see pangeo-forge/cmip6-pipeline issue 10. This represents both user requests and our continuing background processes.

There is also the request sheet associated with the Request Form you mention above. It used to be shared to the public, but a very enterprising individual decided to send email to everyone listed on the page asking for help. I needed to collect the email addresses in order to send updates to the requesters, and could not find a way to hide a single column in a google sheet. Live and learn, I guess.