ESMValTool release 2.7.0

[valeriupredoi]

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello - your Release Manager 'ere - now that we have an ESMValCore release candidate (rc2) that we put through the paces and test (most all) ESMValTool recipes, see https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/issues/2833, and with ESMValCore (hopefully) being release as stable 2.7.0 tomorrow, October 13, 2022, I wanted to bring to the attention of @ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam that we will freeze ESMValTool on Monday, Octoboer 17, 2022. What's this mean? It means that:

• if you have anything (in the form of a pull request) that you would want to be included in the new release, please make sure it gets merged by Monday
• if you have such a PR please add labels, and the Milestone 2.7.0 to it

For any special circumstances (ie the PR is not ready-ready and merged, but you still think that will be a very useful addition and should be included in 2.7.0, if only a tad late, please get in touch here).

Cheers and see a lot of you in Exeter next week :beer:

[valeriupredoi]

ok folks @ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam I have created the release branch release_270stable virtually freezing the code; like I says in the post above, if you have anything that must-must go in the release please let me know asap - testing of the recipes will begin Monday (Levante is off with the fishes until Friday, and am travelling back from the workshop on Friday) :beer:

[TomasTorsvik]

Hi @valeriupredoi , I have a small bug fix PR #2862 for ocean transect plots. It's not critical, but currently the recipe_ocean_example.ymland recipe_ocean_bgc.yml produce "empty" transect plots because plt.axes() overwrites the original figure output. PR #2862 should fix this issue.

[valeriupredoi]

excellent, cheers, @TomasTorsvik - I added that PR to the Milestone 2.7.0 - all it needs is a cleanup of the PR description and a review from @ledm :beer:

[valeriupredoi]

@ESMValGroup/esmvaltool-developmentteam could I please ask you to suggest a highlight for this release? This is one feature that got merged since the last release, and you think it's worthy to be a Highlight, please have a look at what got merged since last release here

[katjaweigel]

I would vote for #2533

[axel-lauer]

This could also be one: #2052

[remi-kazeroni]

What about #2774?

[valeriupredoi]

cheers guys, the IPCC one is surely a nice one indeed! Good suggestions all around :beer:

[valeriupredoi]

apropos of this, we now have a changelog with Highlights https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/pull/2878

[valeriupredoi]

the beast is finally out https://pypi.org/project/ESMValTool/2.7.0/