[MITgcm-devel] package development advice

[Ryan Abernathey]

Hi Folks,

As some of you might know, Ivana, Matt and I have an NSF-funded project
that involves enhancing the capabilities of the layers package.
Specifically, we are going to add the diapycnal velocity component to
layers, which will greatly facilitate online water-mass-transformation
calculations. (We will also finally write some documentation for layers! ;)

I will be doing most of the coding. In order to get the fields we need, I
will have to call layers functions from various places within the main
code, GAD, surface forcing, etc. Or perhaps everything can be routed
through diagnostics. In any case, I wanted to ask for advice about best
practices for making these types of modifications. Should I just check out
the latest cvs, make my changes (will take months), and then check
everything back in once it works? I am worried about my local copy becoming
out of date and the changes not merging well.

Any general advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Ryan
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