Esmvaltool: Topics for ESMValTool workshop in November

[axel-lauer]

Dear ESMValTool developers,

During the last monthly ESMValTool meeting (#1801), the idea came up to have another ESMValTool workshop this year. At the moment, this would probably be a remote workshop, similar to the one we had in March 2020. Here, I would like to collect possible topics for our next workshop. Ideas for topics could be (but are not limited to):

ESMValCore

• new features
• improvement of existing features
• automatisation (testing, downlading and processing of observations)
• support for native model output (e.g. EMAC, EC-Earth)
• documentation

ESMValTool

• new diagnostics
• new plot types
• new observations
• documentation

Please add the topics you would like to address / discuss at our next workshop here:

ESMValCore / ESMValTool:

• work on open pull requests
• introduce ESMValTool tutorial
• pull requests: document guidelines for scientific reviews
• status and plans for automated testing
• t.b.d.

[bouweandela]

I would like to propose that we work on getting many of the currently open pull requests merged or closed with everybody happy about the outcome. A lot of work has gone into creating these pull requests, so it would be great if we could finalize it. Having (part of) a week where we all work together, could really help to get these across the finish line!

Here is a list (authors are in no particular order):

@hb326 opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#200

@valeriupredoi opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#208
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#307
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#496
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#514
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#638
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#786
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#780
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#792
• #874
• #878
• #1255
• #1257
• #1675

@BenMGeo opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#507

@jvegasbsc opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#217
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#391
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#595
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#696
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#706
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#721
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#764
• #659
• #1493
• #1657 (related to #1665 by @mattiarighi and #1646 by @valeriupredoi)

@zklaus opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#74
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#583

@ledm opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#270
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#274
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#446
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#456
• #1331
• #1621

@mwjury opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#247
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#667

@jvegasbsc and @mwjury @aperezpredictia and @zklaus worked on:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#184
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#185

@ValerioLembo opened:

• #1391

@JaroCamphuijsen, @Peter9192, @ruthlorenz

• #1648

@schlunma opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#754
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#759
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#767
• #1790

@bettina-gier opened

• #1649 needs a review from @zklaus

@pcosbsc opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#747

@koldunovn opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#749
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#752

@sloosvel opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#598
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#673
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#720
• #1285
• #1286

@Peter9192 opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#685

@egalytska opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#702

@bascrezee opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#692
• #1694

@axel-lauer opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#635

@bouweandela opened:

• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#245
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#262
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#265
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#699
• ESMValGroup/ESMValCore#729
• #1795
• #1820

@bjoernbroetz opened:

• #1784
• #1799

@LisaBock opened:

• #1812

Could this be a plan? Does anyone have more ideas? @ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam

[valeriupredoi]

thank you for putting this together @bouweandela :beer: - it's a very good idea and I will be there (sad it's not near a Bavarian beer garden but such is pandemic life); I've added a couple more PR's under me name in your list - specially the dependency and solving the OSX install and portability are important!

[nielsdrost]

I really like the idea of focusing on getting PRs merged! How do we prioritize? Oldest first?

[axel-lauer]

Another topic could be a brief summary of the work done for the ESMValTool tutorial.

[axel-lauer]

A first draft agenda is now available for comments and feedback: #1866