Upcoming zppy issues/PRs

[forsyth2]

zppy gets a lot of feature requests, so it's helpful to highlight issues being actively worked on, or on the immediate horizon. (This discussion will be updated accordingly as PRs are merged).

New features:

• Use NCO to automatically exclude 3D variables #704
• Add PMP as task #478 => Workflow for ZPPY- PCMDI for E3SM diagnostics  #624/Workflow for ZPPY- PCMDI for E3SM diagnostics (with fixes on issues found in #624)  #640, Add PCMDI Diags to zppy #647
• [Feature]: Separate original and component plots of global_time_series zppy-interfaces#23
• [Feature]: model-vs-model support for global time series #637
• [Feature]: Save .cfg in output as provenance of a run #711

Performance:

• [Bug]: Potential performance bottleneck with DatasetWrapper.dataset zppy-interfaces#21 / Only read requested vars zppy-interfaces#22
• Performance improvement attempt zppy-interfaces#19

Improvements for debugging:

• [Bug]: Fix logger messages printing multiple times zppy-interfaces#10
• Reproducibility of e3sm_diags runs from zppy #670, List paths in generated diags py file #674

Testing:

• Further automate tests #516 / Automate zppy tests #520 / Automate testing of specific cases #698
• Script to generate image diff grid #685
• Automate organization of test results #695

Bug to fix:

• [Bug]: Updates needed for the example cfg #712
• [Bug]: tc_analysis task won't infer resolution res from ne120ne4pg2 files #688 appearing again (zppy weekly testing log #634 (reply in thread))

Other:

• Deprecated parameter alerts #673
• Add documentation zppy-interfaces#2
• Add ability to specify parameters via cfg zppy-interfaces#3

Ongoing testing:

• zppy weekly testing log #634