Yao-Yuan Mao

I am bumping the priority to medium and labeling it "help wanted" since this is one of the most asked questions.

@wmwv Is this issue still relevant? If not we should close it. If it is still relevant, feel free to change the priority (I am currently assigning it a low...

Here's an updated [GCR Prioritization Plan](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQdPmOpaF0eXGiBhUe2B6j57EMoV_lvZVhX7_cdChFMmTr9EoOejmnzMxhTnkg4YAo3F0Zp6eoL8mG1/pub) written by Yao-Yuan Mao, Joanne Bogart, Johann Cohen-Tanugi during the 2020 January collaboration meeting.

Equally important are the tests to validate catalog configs, ensuring that they do follow the specification. There have been some discussion between @JoanneBogart and me in #446. We have now...

Thanks, @heather999. Both are addressed, and I also fixed some other minor typos/wordings. Further comments/suggestions from everyone welcome. Will plan to merge by the end of week if no further...

Thank you @patricialarsen! Sorry, I only had a bit of time to skim over it, and I'll take a closer look soon. I do have a question about the permissions....

@patricialarsen thanks for updating the PR and sorry for the delay. Looking at the changes to the readers, I wonder if it's worthy creating a new base class, say `BaseMPIGenericCatalog`....

Thanks @JoanneBogart I looked over the code changes and they look good, but I have not actually tested the code. The added documentation text is useful. At some point (not...

@JoanneBogart Thank you! Indeed, integrating GitHub CI with NERSC will be a significant undertaking. Although I wonder if we may be able to create small-scope unit tests that does not...

Thanks for the PR @AlecThomson! Can you say a bit about the motivation for this change? I limited the default to 8 to ensure the number of requests we send...