CCPP Framework Meeting Minutes 2020 01 23

• Progress towards unit testing coverage of cap_gen.py code (branch feature/cap_gen)

• Reschedule meeting to 9am after the UFS public release date?

  • Dom to confirm with UFS release leads and decide

• Recap of the Jan 9 discussion of having separate _init and _restart/_reinit phases?

  • Update the issue handling restart logic, need to work out logic to hande coldstart and restart inits as separate phases
  • https://github.com/NCAR/ccpp-framework/issues/250

• Transition to cap_gen.py

  • Split the transition into (a) build and (b) use of new autogenerated code
  • Grant working on removing GFS_typedefs.f90 from interstitial schemes
    • this could be completed after the transition in an effort to make it more portable)
  • Some interstitial code can be moved into the new _timestep_init and _timestep_final routines
    • this could be completed after the transition in an effort to make it more portable)
  • Check metadata for consistency:
    • horizontal_dimension in _init and _final, horizontal_loop_extent in _run
    • cap_gen.py will recognize the existing _finalize routines
    • metadata parser and Fortran syntax parser to fix all the inconsistencies between them