Parcels 10 Year Anniversary: Sprintable issues #2261
Description
Happy 10 year anniversary to Parcels 🎉🎉🎉
During the event we will be "sprinting"1 to work on Parcels version 4 development - focussing on issues that are relevant to the current stage of development.
There are issues labeled with hackathon2025 which are contained units of work (mostly suitable for first time contributors!)
Nick's wishlist :) :
- Assert that field names have to valid Python attributes #2101
- Add download/open in Binder pre-amble for notebooks #2206
Erik's wishlist:
- empty (for now)
Rest:
- Make kernels a required argument to pset.execute() #2278
- Rename
pyfuncargument in Kernels and ParticleSet tokernelsor something similar? #2275 - Runtime warnings for kernels (syntax upgrading, and correctness) #2109
- Version 3 to version 4 migration hint when accessing removed methods and attributes #2124
- Create example Kernel using gsw package for equation of state calculation #2126
- Remove dt default to pset.execute #2136
- Rename TimeExtrapolationError to OutsideTimeIntervalError #2145
- Provide more context to OutofBoundError #2146
- Use datetime64/timedelta64 for progressbar #2149
- Consolidate attribute names (pclass vs ptype) #2184
- Check that _mesh of all Fields is the same when creating FieldSet #2190
DOC: Streamline debugging of user hydrodynamic dataset metadata #2224- Remove outdated v3 code #2255
- Logic issue in tutorial on spherical grids and unit conversion #2266
- Broken link(s) in v4-dev Documentation #2264
We also have other that require some more knowledge about the internals of Parcels.
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We also have members of Parcels working on the https://github.com/OceanParcels/Parcels-benchmarks repository during the event.
As more issues are identified, this list will be updated.
Footnotes
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code sprints - collaborative sessions focused on advancing open-source projects ↩