Esmvaltool: Monthly ESMValTool meeting - June

[bouweandela]

The next monthly ESMValTool meeting will be in June. The result of the poll is that it will be on

Wednesday June 3 at 12:00 CET (11:00 BST).

The duration will be one hour. Join the zoom meeting here.

@ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam

Format and agenda

• We start the meeting by doing a round where everyone gets one minute to introduce themselves and tell what they will be working on in the next month or what they are struggling with
• Using the input from the introduction round, we can decide to talk about specific topics with the entire group or make smaller breakout groups to continue the discussion there.
• If you already know that you would like to bring up a particular topic in the meeting, you can link the GitHub issue to this issue so it's easy to find for other people in the meeting and we can already start discussing there before the meeting. Just create a new GitHub issue if there is no open issue yet.
• GitHub issues are our preferred way to communicate outside the meeting and keep track of work, so any feature requests/action items/etc discussed in the meeting should ideally result in a GitHub issue.

Notes from the previous meeting can be found here: https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/issues/1609#issuecomment-624658525

Topics for discussion proposed in this issue:

• v2 release (when would we like to release and what would we still like to do before releasing?)
• squash merges #1653
• station data #496

[axel-lauer]

I would like to propose to put the release schedule of v2.0 on the agenda. It would be helpful to decide on things that are critical yet still missing and thus blocking release of v2.0 as well as to collect other items that could also go into a later release, e.g. v2.0.1.

[mattiarighi]

As an input to the discussion on the final release, I went through all the issues and sort them in two projects: v2.0 release and v2.1 release.

Same is done for ESMValCore: v2.0 and v2.1.

It would be good if someone could do the same for ESMValCore.

@ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-coreteam

[bouweandela]

@ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam The meeting will take place on Wednesday June 3 at 12:00 CET (11:00 BST).

[bouweandela]

I would also like to make a decision on #1653 in the meeting.

[mattiarighi]

We should also make a decision on #496.

[valeriupredoi]

we should defo talk about releasing 2.0 soon :bullettrain_side:

[duncanwp]

We should also make a decision on #496.

Happy to provide input to that discussion if it would be useful

[bjoernbroetz]

We should also make a decision on #496.

Happy to provide input to that discussion if it would be useful

Thanks @duncanwp. @jgriesfeller you might like to join the call too!

[alistairsellar]

Please can someone give me the meeting password (by mail if you don't want to post it here)?

[bouweandela]

Just a minute, I'll try to figure out what it is, apparently zoom added passwords to all meetings recently

[bouweandela]

The password is 8iyQMx

[bouweandela]

Topic: Station data
Time: Jun 3, 2020 01:00 PM Amsterdam

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82443796765?pwd=b3QrT3EwS0FQRERzNUdRTkFZblpWQT09

Meeting ID: 824 4379 6765
Password: 7mhyp2

[bouweandela]

Topic: Tutorial
Time: Jun 3, 2020 01:00 PM Amsterdam

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84127203139?pwd=TWx5dkJnRTJCaldTYkhodENwdDdEUT09

Meeting ID: 841 2720 3139
Password: 2CQN1e

[duncanwp]

These are the relavent CF Conventions: http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.8/cf-conventions.html#appendix-examples-discrete-geometries

[nielsdrost]

"The host has another meeting in progress" :-(

[bouweandela]

Solved that by making @SarahAlidoost the host for the Tutorial meeting, you should now be able to join one of both meetings.

[nielsdrost]

Solved that by making @SarahAlidoost the host for the Tutorial meeting, you should now be able to join one of both meetings.

Still does not work for me.

[bouweandela]

@nielsdrost Reported he was able to join after installing the zoom application.

[valeriupredoi]

it's not gonna install itself, is it now :rofl:

[bouweandela]

Thanks for attending everyone!

Here is a short summary

• We would like to release v2 soon. @bouweandela will make a doodle to set up a meeting with @ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-coreteam. Before the meeting, please apply the appropriate milestone to issues you think you can complete before the due date https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/milestone/3 and https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/milestone/3. A tentative due date proposed by @mattiarighi is July 15, 2020, but this is open for discussion of course. Missing the deadline shouldn't be a problem if we make releases regularly. The projects https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/projects/4 and https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValCore/projects/2 created by @mattiarighi could probably be a good starting point for selecting issues (though covering everything there seems a bit optimistic).

• We will leave the issue about squash merges #1653 open for another week and if no-one objects within that time, we will start using them.

• The way forward with the station data (#496, #1655) will be to try using CIS tools to build a CMORizer script, possibly starting from pull request #1656. CIS tools allows reading the data into a form that follows the CF conventions, so some additional renaming of variables/coordinates/units will probably be needed to get it CMOR/CMIP6 data request compliant. CIS tools also has a feature for collocating station data with model data, this could possibly be implemented as a preprocessor function once the data is available in a CMORized form.

• @ledm @SarahAlidoost and @Peter9192 made good progress on planning the tutorial

[valeriupredoi]

yeah cheers for organizing and leading these calls @bouweandela - they are pretty useful indeed! :beer:

[valeriupredoi]

@bouweandela says I should indicate my availability here so here goes: available for all sorts of things including work on ESMValTool, marriage (with reservations), talking about Formula 1 and history over Zoom beers, and not available for other things including travelling outside Reading, talking to people that don't trust science, and socializing with an angry cat. Is this good enough? :grin:

[nielsdrost]

@bouweandela says I should indicate my availability here so here goes: available for all sorts of things including work on ESMValTool, marriage (with reservations), talking about Formula 1 and history over Zoom beers, and not available for other things including travelling outside Reading, talking to people that don't trust science, and socializing with an angry cat. Is this good enough?

Yes! Also consider filling in the Doodle for this month's meeting here: https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/issues/1670

[valeriupredoi]

I did :beer: