Xclim Development Goals 2025

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General Summary

This issue is the summary of goals for xclim development in 2025.

From time to time, the goals here may change as major milestones are completed, and other tasks may prove more complex than originally envisioned.

Specific Goals

• First stable release (v1.0 or Calendar Versioning)
  • API convention freeze.
  • Which things are we safe to break?
  • Which parts are considered public API?
• Split of xsdba into its own package, to be used as a virtual submodule (see: https://github.com/Ouranosinc/xsdba).
  • Speeding up imports of the library (Speed up import  #1948)
• Adoption of cruft for boilerplate code maintenance.
• OSSF Best Practices Silver Rating (https://www.bestpractices.dev/en/projects/6041)
• Xclim Benchmarking suite (work for an intern?)
• Better support for spatial-affected indicators (spatial means)
  • New CLISOPS-core package (yet to be named)
  • Research existing tools

Special Attention Needed

• Contributing units management improvements upstream.
• "Quantified" annotations need to accept the types they explicitly say they support.