[Ncep.list.nems.announce] Permanent freeze of NEMSLegacy and commit of GSM capping

[Samuel Trahan - NOAA Affiliate]

Hi,

Sorry, one typo.  The FV3 app is NEMSfv3gfs.  Hence, FV3 development moves
here:

   FV3 -> nems/apps/FV3GFS/trunk

Sincerely,
Sam Trahan

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Samuel Trahan - NOAA Affiliate <
samuel.trahan at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Fellow NEMS developers,
>
> Soon I will commit Jun's change to remove the atmos layer to the trunk of
> NEMS and permanently freeze NEMSLegacy.  Standalone development of the
> three atmospheric dynamical cores will move to three new apps.  The NEMS
> and NEMSLegacy branches related to GSM and FV3 capping work will move to
> new locations.  This involves a sequence of commits that will finish either
> late this week or early next week.  I will announce each one before
> committing it, and I will run both the old and new regression test suites.
> Details are below.
>
> As you may know, the removal of the atmos layer will temporarily break
> NMMB support and make it harder for older GSM development to be merged to
> the trunk.  For this reason, we will create an "uncapped" branch of NEMS
> for support of developers that are not up to date with the latest trunk
> changes.  We will continue to backport bug fixes to the "uncapped" branch
> as needed.  However, we would like to end this practice as soon as possible.
>
> Development of standalone models will move from nems/apps/NEMSLegacy to
> the following three locations:
>
>    NMMB -> nems/apps/NMMBTestBed/trunk
>    GFS -> nems/apps/NEMSGSM/trunk
>    FV3 -> nems/apps/FV3GFS/trunk
>
> There will be no more commits to nems/apps/NEMSLegacy/trunk
>
> Other branches will move:
>
>   nems/branches/ATM-refactor/ -> nems/trunk
>   nems/apps/NEMSLegacy/branches/GSM-capping -> nems/apps/NEMSGSM/trunk
>   nems/apps/NEMSLegacy/branches/jun/nems4fv3 -> nems/apps/NEMSfv3gfs/trunk
>
> The "uncapped" branch of NEMS will be here:
>
>   nems/trunk -> nems/branches/uncapped
>
> The nems/apps/NMMBTestBed/trunk will a copy of the NEMSLegacy/trunk just
> before the capping was merged.  However, it will point to the
> nems/branches/uncapped branch instead of the trunk.  That will allow
> back-porting of bug fixes for NMMB support until the cap is completed.
>
> Sincerely,
> Sam Trahan
>
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