ESMValTool Technical Lead Meeting (every two months)

[valeriupredoi]

Hey peeps we just had the Tech Lead meeting today, and here below are the minutes; if you wish to do download the minutes from this call or the one past one, or any future one, go to https://github.com/ESMValGroup/Community/tree/main/Tech%20Lead/Minutes

Technical Lead Call

Minutes 11 February 2021

• Attendance: @zklaus @bouweandela @bsolino @remi-kazeroni @schlunma @sloosvel @valeriupredoi
• Next meetings convener/frequency: V/bi-monthly
• Saskia: her dept. needs a Roadmap
  • Bouwe points us to the existing roadmap: https://www.esmvaltool.org/roadmap.html
  • Klaus/Bouwe: this should be responsability of the Steering Group (which is not yet)
  • Saskia clarifies: more what's gonna be in the next releases
  • Klaus/Bouwe/Remi: work with Milestones more (various points about Milestones)
  • Klaus: keep the current roadmap at high-level, attach Release planning, and Milestones
    part of a more detailed -> Steering Group + Interpanel
  • Point in case: if every PR should have a Milestone attached to it. This would help users
    know what's gonna be in the next release(s) - sounds good from everyone
• Bouwe: we have to update the release schedule and release managers: possible Saskia
• Bouwe/Remi: decide on a big 3.0? We need to talk about a major release, but..
• ...Klaus: we should do the 2.X's further down the line; continue with 2.X
  and assign "2.X" version names to Milestones
• Klaus: number of open pull resquests has dimished
  • Manu: auto closing of issues/PRs if no activity (iris-style)
  • Bouwe: still relevant even if there is no activity
  • Klaus: suggesting keeping things as they are assigning Milestones will control this better
• Bouwe: PRIMAVERA work gonna get finished?
  • Saskia: her work is done; Javi's bit will be disbanded
  • Klaus: limited interest overall, but there may still be interest even now ->
    some stuff is interesting
  • Bouwe: rather keep the attitude of helping with diags rather than write them for scientists
  • Klaus: we got praised at the Workshop as a solid community
  • Klaus: some PRIMAVERA diags are still very relevant: blocking, heat content etc ->
    we'll contact some of the developers see what we can do about them - Klaus will
    do that (thanks, dude!)
• Birgit: ESMValTool is THE German model evaluator, we can now ask for programming help,
  to integrate various external packages/functionalities - proposals start in early/mid summer!
  Sounds very promising: Birgit will update us with more details as they come;

Action items

• remove package recipes since we don't do the build via tests anymore
• Have a look at Update checker config ESMValTool#2527

Next Call Topics

Add your topics here

• Klaus: large OBS/automatic OBS updates/download - large files and chunking
• Look at Update checker config ESMValTool#2527 and discuss/decide on
  the linting scheme
• ...

Next call in April, I will send around a poll for specific day/time

[valeriupredoi]

note that we're not calling this bi-monthly since that could also mean twice every month 😁

[zklaus]

Actually, it can mean both: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bimonthly c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennale.

[valeriupredoi]

yes, exactly, that's why my mention - it's as confusing as a land fish 🐟