Post-P2G 3.0 release task list

[djhoese]

• Upgrade or replace development server: Our main development server bumi needs its OS upgraded after we release 3.0. However, it has also been having a lot of network interface issues so it may new hardware or a complete replacement.
• Install dockerd (or equivalent) on bumi and transition build system to docker. This should allow us to more easily target other platforms if needed.
• Update software bundle to Python 3.11 (might come with some decent performance improvements)
• Add new integration tests from Kathy's 3.0 series of tests
• Review EWA-based resampling defaults with weight_distance_max=1.0 (see comment below)

[djhoese]

I just updated the TODO list above with needing to check on resampling defaults where weight_distance_max=1.0. We set this for produces like ACSPO and MERSI to reproduce the same results from Polar2Grid 2.3, but we know that using weight_distance_max=1.0 can produce holes in the file image depending on the latitude (I think it is more prevalent at higher latitudes). I noticed this with "test6" of the Jenkins integration tests where the weight_distance_max=2.0 actually fills in the gaps of the ACSPO SST much more than setting it to 1.0. Not sure this is a good thing in this case though (is that data actually there or just being interpolated to be there).

[djhoese]

Python 3.11 is now the default in CI testing and is the version of python used in the software bundle. I've checked the TODO item at the top of this issue.

[kathys]

The other issues on this list will not be done for the 3.1 release.