5 Summary

• Develop a formal process for the atmosphere CRB, meet regularly to carry out this process.

• Implement a CRB for the overall CCSM.

• Implement CRBs for ocean, ice, land, and coupler components.

• Improve repository monitoring tools.

• Improve testing capabilities. Make these capabilities available to the community.

• Investigate status accounting tools to replace ccsm-bugs wreq software and add new features.

• Continue to improve documentation. In particular, review the set of documents that currently exist, remove redundancy, and update documentation.

• Carry out some short- and long-term planning, especially as related to a next major CCSM release. Record plans.

• Review what we've learned so far with respect to software engineering process and start using some of the new knowledge.

• Continue to provide training to software engineers to improve their productivity and quality of work.

• Review the needs with respect to a data management group.