open source/first release

[barneydobson]

This is an issue to discuss the open sourcing of SWMManywhere, the release that will be associated, and any issues that need completing.

• With the closing of pysheds to whitebox #266 and Streetcover bug #258 all of the blocker issues that require coding will have been resolved.
• There are three other blocker issues for the open sourcing and distribution:
  • conda-forge #270 - @cheginit
  • Setup workflow to publish to pypi #261 - @dalonsoa
  • Determine branch protection for main #240 - Both if you could take a look
  • update pywbt #279 - @barneydobson
• To my surprise the code is finished before the paper, so there is some leeway if we think any issues are essential. I think I added you both to the project. The 'software handy' priority are the things that might likely be addressed. I do not have an abundance of time - but may be able to address one 'big' issue before a release. Some of the big issues that are probably more important than others (that said - I'm really only looking to close things that we think are absolutely essential):
  • There are still quite a few notebooks that could be written Notebooks #106 .
  • If I'd known how to use swmmio properly I would have done it all with that rather than writing my own custom code Convert inp file read/write to swmmio #84 (you'll have to scroll the conversation a bit). You can see a lot of issues link to this so it could close many things.
  • There's a clear inflexibility of our handling of precipitation events... I'd be keen to not provide easy support for this until we know of a good global dataset that would actually be able to underpin the software and tailor it to that Precipitation events #55 .