Minutes of the code management group meeting 15/5/2012

Minutes of the code management group meeting 15/5/2012

Location: Cambridge

Present (for all or part of the meeting): Nick Savage (Met Office), Mohit Dalvi (Met Office), Colin Johnson (Met Office), Luke Abraham (Cambridge University), Alex Archibald (Cambridge University), Graham Mann (Leeds University)

1. code management.
2. code ownership.
   1. Formal code owner at Met Office
   2. subsection owners - names and responsibilities
3. Plans for the next year
   1. vn8.3 - minor technical changes only
   2. Met Office science changes f
   3. NCAS science changes
4. Setting up new UKCA wiki
   1. templates for code review and ticket summary
   2. tickets
5. Configuration management
6. Code testing external to Met Office
   1. configurations to undergo routine testing
   2. UTF on postproc and alternatives
   3. External reviewers for NCAS changes
7. Location for minutes of these meetings and access policy
8. date/time of next meeting

Also discussed more informally were:

1. Optimisation
2. Validation suite
3. IRIS