[MITgcm-devel] Moving remaining pieces to github

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Oliver,

I took a look, and this seems good. Thanks.

May be we wait until our meeting this coming week (in case someone has
an other suggestion, like regaring names) before moving these 2 repos
to the MITgcm GitHub space.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 11:26:13AM -0500, Oliver Jahn wrote:
> Hi Jean-Michel,
> 
> sounds good.  I've made a couple of repos along these lines:
> 
> https://github.com/jahn/mitgcm.org
> https://github.com/jahn/regression_tests
> 
> The mitgcm.org one has some empty commit messages early on which I didn't touch.  I fixed one higher up where the conversion tool got confused (2002-09-20 Importing web-site building process.)
> 
> Let me know what you think (Jean-Michel and others).
> 
> Cheers,
> Oliver
> 
> On 26/11/2024 12.24, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> >Hi Oliver,
> >
> >I hope you are doing well.
> >
> >There are still few pieces that are under CVS that would be good to move to GitHub:
> >1) the old "mitgcm.org" with the original web-site src files.
> >2) some scripts to (a) run daily regression tests (currently in: MITgcm_contrib/test_scripts)
> >                    (b) to collect the regression-test output, organize and check these.
> >    this later part is mostly in "mitgcm.org/scripts/", and I could take care of bringing
> >    in the 1 or 2 missing files once mitgcm.org/scripts/ is moved to git.
> >
> >The original web-site src files are still used to make the test web-page, this might
> >change one day, but this should not prevent us to move this to GitHub.
> >We could decide to convert mitgcm.org/ CVS to git (as you did for MITgcm and verification_other
> >plus few other repos) and put this under MITgcm, at the same level as verification_other
> >  ( git at github.com:MITgcm/verification_other.git ). Regarding name, may be "web_legacy" ?
> >
> >For the other bits, they could go to an other GitHub repos, also at the same level,
> >called "regression_test", with one directory "run_tests" (<- from MITgcm_contrib/test_scripts/)
> >and an other directory "collect_tests" (<- from mitgcm.org/scripts).
> >I don't know if it's possible to make a "converted" git repos from 2 CVS dirs, and
> >if it is, how much work this requires.
> >
> >so what is your opinion about this ? and do you (or others) have better suggestions ?
> >
> >And just for information, the location of CVS repos are, for
> >  1)  at: zany.mit.edu:/data/ORWELL/export-9/gcmpack/mitgcm.org/
> >  2a) at: zany.mit.edu:/data/ORWELL/export-9/gcmpack/MITgcm_contrib/test_scripts/
> >  2b) at: zany.mit.edu:/data/ORWELL/export-9/gcmpack/mitgcm.org/scripts/
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Jean-Michel