October 2015 - Acme-se - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Feature freeze FAQ
by Robert Jacob 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hello ACME SE/CPL group, Please look over/comment/add/correct this FAQ before it goes out to acme-all (tonight). https://acme-climate.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SE/Feature+Freeze+FAQ Rob

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Squashing commits
by Robert Jacob 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

Hello Integrators, Before merging a long-lived branch with dozens of commits to next/master, which is probably going to happen a lot in the next week, look at the log of the branch and see if some commits can be combined with rebase. The reason for combining commits is to keep a clean commit history. "A clean commit history is one where each commit is a solid piece of work, representing a milestone in your feature or fix. It doesn’t have to be a large amount of work, just some good chunk that, conceptually, stands alone. An unclean commit history is often littered with commits like “Fixed a bug in my previous commit” or “Oops, forgot this file” or “rewrite that subroutine again for the 3rd time.” The commit history lives forever once the branch is merged to master. A good how to page is here: http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/10/squashing-commits-with-rebase.html Rob

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Jeff leaving ACME
by Jeffrey Johnson 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

ACME software engineers, I’m sorry to say that I’m leaving the ACME project this month, and won’t be attending the November meeting. Over the past several months, my other obligations have made it difficult for me to give this project the attention that it deserves from a Software Engineer. I’ve been able to keep pace with things as far as “keeping the lights on” and performing essential duties, but as things stand, I can’t see myself bringing the proper level of creative energy to bear on our vision for the future. It has been a pleasure working with you guys. In spite of the fact that the SE team is the smallest team on the project, and that many of us had never worked together before in any significant capacity, we’ve made some real progress and performed effectively as a team. There are always going to be issues in supporting a project of this scope, but the attitude of everyone I’ve interacted with on this team and on the science teams has indicated that people are willing to work to make things better, and it’s been inspiring. Of course, there have been less inspiring elements of the project, such as the draconian reporting requirements, which are labor-intensive and counterproductive. They are a drag on morale for almost all of the project members I’ve interacted with, which is a structural problem on a large and difficult project. If you would like to use my departure as ammunition for persuading management to change their monolithic approach to overseeing your progress, please feel free. In any case, you’ve not seen the last of me. I will be interacting with several if not all of you via other projects, a few of which touch on ACME in different ways. Feel free to drop me a note anytime. In the meantime, I will complete the Pull Requests that are assigned to me, help out with things as needed, and definitely answer questions and assist with on-boarding a replacement. Best, Jeff

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Update machine configuration page
by Robert Jacob 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

If you are a machine POC, please update the entry for your machine on https://acme-climate.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SE/Configuration+Management We need compiler version numbers and MPI library version names and numbers for many of them. This will help diagnose build/run errors between platforms. Rob

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2 days left in sprint
by Robert Jacob 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

Hello SE/CPL group, There are 2 days left in the current sprint. Make sure to log work to tasks for the current sprint. Make those tasks now if they don't exist. Rob

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JIRA Softare upgrade
by Robert Jacob 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

According to the admin page for our Confluence/JIRA cloud instance, we've been upgraded to "JIRA Software". Might just be a re-branding but more info is here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/migration/jira-7/cloud_jira+agile_product-… Rob

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Slack Usage
by Douglas Jacobsen 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Hey everyone, There are a few of us who use slack regularly for discussions related to SE things (like testing / scripts / help / etc...) and we were thinking it would be incredibly useful if more of the SE team started to use it regularly. It's immensely useful for having discussions related to how to go about doing things in between telecons, since those occur once every two weeks. There are instructions for signing up in these meeting notes (if you haven't already): https://acme-climate.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=252319… Personally, I use linux and unfortunately slack doesn't provide a linux client. However, you can connect to slack using any IRC client. See the following page for instructions: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connecting-to-Slack-o… Using an IRC client might also help get around connectivity issues. If slack ends up not being workable for certain labs, maybe we could revisit the actual tool we use for this communication method? It would be great to be able to have quicker discussions about a lot of SE things with more people. Thanks! Doug

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[Confluence] James Foucar mentioned you in "Re: Replacing CIME perl/csh-based capabilities with Python"
by James Foucar (Confluence) 09 Oct '15

09 Oct '15

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[Confluence] James Foucar mentioned you in "Re: CIME merge journal"
by James Foucar (Confluence) 08 Oct '15

08 Oct '15

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CIME is on master
by Robert Jacob 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hello ACME Integrators, CIME is now on master and you can resume merging PRs. First, completely read the post-cime integrators page: https://acme-climate.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SE/Post-cime+merging+for+In… Note that if your PR has build-system changes, you must be sure you can still build the model using create_newcase BEFORE pushing to next or master. I can help with any conflicts in ACME/components/<model>/bld. Rob

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