CTSM Software Engineering Developer Team Guidelines

Guidelines for the CTSM Software Engineering team that bring developments into the main-line development of CTSM. Primarily this is for the team in the [email protected] email group and recognized in the markdown README shown in the opening CTSM github page. It includes both scientific and software engineering staff working at NSF-NCAR as well as critical external collaborators working on CTSM.

• Issue labels and issue management

• PR labels

• System testing guide

• Pull request review workflow

• Tag naming conventions

• Procedure for merging to b4-dev

• Procedure for merging b4-dev to master

• Development workflow (work in progress)

• Help and recommendations for updating CESM submodules

• Testing and PR high-level workflow

• Testing and PR complex workflows

• Protocols for updating FATES

• Minor Version update Protocols

• LILAC developer info

• Moving a parameter to the params file

• Adding namelist items to CTSM

• Pushing to someone else's PR branch