<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-0d1224cb-7fff-a378-9334-90563aad7117"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Now that the government is open again and we are spinning up, it is time to pick up on planned activities that were put on hold. One important activity is a repository restructuring of FV3 in preparation of it becoming a community repository. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In the next few months we are going to be undertaking a restructuring of the fv3 repository in preparation for getting this updated to become a community repository. This activity will be carried out in stages and we are not going to stop development activities, but will be working with everyone who are actively involved in development to ensure that there research work does not get hampered. This will be led by Jun  so it is imperative you work with her to make sure things go smoothly</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These are the planned stages</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stage 1 ( Time line -- 1/31/19 - 2/15/19) : A clean up of the repository. Currently there are many branches in the repository. We want to prune these down to only the active development branches. So all branches that were created with a plan to do development activity (but has not started) need to be removed. Also redundant branches that have either been abandoned and/or not needed anymore. Clean up will make this easier so please help Jun do this. Otherwise, without input any branches with no update for the last few months will be assumed to be inactive</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stage 2 (Time line -- 2/15/19 - 3/8/19) : Moving the FV3 dycore source code out to its own repository. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stage 3 (Time line -- 3/8/19 - 3/24/19): Moving the Stochastic physics out to its own repository </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stage 4 (Time line -- 3/24/19 - 4/24/19): Moving the Physics (gfsphysics and namphysics) +IPD out to its own repository</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At the completion of each stage the corresponding nems apps will also be updated to reflect the new repo structures. If your development branch is associated with one or more stages then please let Jun know so that we can adequately reproduce your branches in the new repositories. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This will be done carefully, that is why we are providing enough time to do this. And remember this is all in a repository so every change can be brought back. That said, your cooperation is critical to ensure that this happens seamlessly. We are creating a google doc with the current list of branches for all of you to populate.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vN_viA8aED3d3sKafpVoTyLNqxIWeQ-iS-05AiPvkdU/edit#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vN_viA8aED3d3sKafpVoTyLNqxIWeQ-iS-05AiPvkdU/edit#gid=0</a></span></font><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">We need all the columns populated for the branches. We need to know the person responsible for the branches, whether the branches are redundant (and we can delete them) as well as focus area (identified by dycore, physics or stochastic physics which corresponds to the different stages of the repository restructuring)</span></font></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks !   </span></p></span><div dir="ltr"><br></div>p.s. Please forward to all you think that are involved with FV3 development. Particularly outside EMC</div><div dir="ltr"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arun Chawla                                                            </div>Chief</div><div>Engineering &amp; Implementation Branch                                     </div><div><div>Room 2083<br>National Center for Weather &amp; Climate Prediction<br>5830 University Research Court<br>College Park, MD 20740<br>Ph: 301-683-3740<br>Fx: 301-683-3703<br>------------------------------------------------------------<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>