[Ncep.list.wwatch3.discussion-group] WWIII Developer Meeting Minutes -- Wed Nov 16 (IMPORTANT info inside)

[Jessica Meixner - NOAA Affiliate]

Hi Everyone,

*IMPORTANT: LAST CALL FOR UPDATES TO SECTION 1.4 OF THE MANUAL BY FRIDAY*.
Please go through and confirm that your contributions are correct and
accounted for.  For quick reference see http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/
waves/wavewatch/manual.v5.16.pdf  You can either put your updates directly
into the doc_edits branch or email them to me.

*OPTIONS for citing manual*:

*Option 1*:
The WAVEWATCH III® Development Group (WW3DG), 2016: User manual and system
documentation of  WAVEWATCH III® version 5.16. Tech. Note 329,
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/MMAB, College Park, MD, USA, 326 pp. + Appendices.

--- The reasons for this option is to emphasize that WAVEWATCH III is now a
community code and solves this issue for future issues as well.  A further
example for support of this is Linux for example no longer is citing Linus.


*Option 2*:
Tolman, H.L. and The WAVEWATCH III® Development Group (WW3DG), 2016: User
manual and system documentation of  WAVEWATCH III® version 5.16. Tech. Note
329, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/MMAB, College Park, MD, USA, 326 pp. + Appendices.

--  This option would give a person for the first author, which helps some
of the concerns when citing on certain websites/publishers which might
force a "human" and keeps the Development Group to emphasize the
community.  An open question is if a fake human "WW3DG" could be entered in
these places, making this potentially unnecessary.

*Option 3*:
Tolman, H.L., et al., 2016: User manual and system documentation of
 WAVEWATCH III® version 5.16. Tech. Note 329, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/MMAB, College
Park, MD, USA, 326 pp. + Appendices.

-  There are some that have a desire to have a full list of authors, which
realistically would be shorted to Tolman et al by most if not all
websites/publishers/people.  Also it would be unrealistic to keep up the
continually growing list of names in so many different places (first page,
Section 1.4, bibtex entries in multiple places, etc etc.)  So we would
probably just say Tolman et al with the list authors still being maintained
only in Section 1.4 and any individuals who wish to list the whole list
other places.

The only consensus we had on the call was that if there is a person first,
Tolman would be that author, and to take this discussion off-line. I would
venture to say option 1 is fine with the majority and option 2 if a person
for first author is a must, but I could be wrong and this is a democracy,
so feel free to voice other opinions.  A choice one way or another will be
made by Friday.

Other manual updates will include a "Please refer as" on the front page
with the agreed upon citation. We will also provide a text file with the
bibtex reference of the manual as a cheat sheet so anyone who downloads the
code will have an easy reference.  We will also update Section 1.4's
heading with  "The WAVEWATCH III Development Group".

*OTHER MEETING NOTES: *

The items missed from version 5, which now seem to be the priorities for
version 6:

   - implicit integration
   - namelist for input files
   - breaking probabilities
   - ESMF interface

There are many other milestones and plans for version 6, that are on the
wiki page.  Please add your milestones that are not included and details
for the ones that are.  Also, please add tickets for bugs that you have
found, so we can all keep track of issues together.  For example, if you
have details on the memory footprint issues or NC4 issues you have
encountered put them in a ticket.

Fabrice, at NCEP our only "forum" is the wiki we currently have.  If you
would like to create any other forums, feel free.

Something that got left out of the meeting is that the trunk will be
updated to version 6.00 after the updated manual goes out. I will send out
an email update when that happens.

*REMINDERS:*

   1. Check section 1.4 for your contribution by Friday.
   2. Voice your opinion on citation of manual by Friday.
   3. Add/update milestones/tickets on the wiki page.
   4. Monthly calls are every third Wednesday at 10:30am EDT (Next one
   being Wednesday, December 21st).  Let me know if you have anything you
   would like to present at this or future group calls.

As always please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Jessica

-- 
Jessica Meixner
IMSG Support Scientist
NCEP/EMC Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch
NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction
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