Hi Don:
On 4/2/2014 9:23 PM, Don Murray wrote:
John-
On 4/2/14 6:38 PM, John Caron wrote:
You might think "Why didnt we find these problems before releasing?"
Because we dont have a separate test team, like commercial software
release cycle does. We constantly improve our testing, but plenty gets
past us. We rely on the users to find the last set of bugs. And its all
but impossible to get users to try beta software. Fact of life.
In this case, you did not rely on the users to find the bugs before
you released the software. With the transition from 4.2 to 4.3, you
set up a test server, allowed ample time to have users find the
problems so you could fix them before making the change. It seems that
this would have been prudent in this case as well.
yes you are right. The need to fix the updating problem blinded us to
other issues. my apologies to all.
The variable names have not changed. The bundles will still work. We are
fixing the ones that Darryl discovered had changed.
They have changed. As I pointed out on Monday, in this bundle:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/repository/entry/get/gfs-nh-sh.xidv?entryid=d178fe25-5bfd-40cf-930d-960adcbe3d30
the U and V wind variables have changed when pointed to 4.5 on
thredds-test.
I will track this down, but its probably that WMO or NCEP changed their
tables. sean has some ideas how to improve bundles to help with this
ongoing problem, but i dont know of a short term fix at the moment.
Regards,
John
