[RELEASE] release-2.0.0 tasks

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Release task list

Project board: spack-stack-2.0.x (2025 Q4)

• Create release branches release/x.y for spack, spack-packages and spack-stack
• Update doc/CMakeLists.txt, doc/source/conf.py (x.y instead of dev, x.y.z instead of develop, and .gitmodules (release/x.y instead of develop): dc4d05f
• Clear project board (no open pull requests other than for specific site configs or documentation)
• Prepare Wiki page for release information (https://github.com/jcsda/spack-stack/wiki)
• Roll out release x.y.z from release branch release/x.y and update documentation (readthedocs), site config, and wiki page each time. Can use release candidate tag instead: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/releases/tag/spack-stack-2.0.0rc2
  • Acorn (NOAA-EMC)
  • Atlantis (NRL)
  • Blueback (NRL)
  • Derecho (EPIC)
  • Discover (JCSDA)
  • Gaea (EPIC)
  • Hercules (EPIC)
  • Narwhal (NRL)
  • NAS (NASA)
  • Nautilus (NRL)
  • Orion (EPIC)
  • S4 (???)
  • Ursa (EPIC)
  • JCSDA AWS Parallelcluster (JCSDA)
  • JCSDA AWS AMI (JCSDA)
  • JCSDA CI containers (JCSDA)
  • NAVY PW AWS (NRL)
  • NOAA PW AWS (EPIC)
  • NOAA PW Azure (EPIC)
  • NOAA PW Gcloud (EPIC)
• Tag spack and spack-packages
• Update doc/CMakeLists.txt, doc/source/conf.py, and .gitmodules to use tags instead of release branches
• Tag spack-stack
• Prepare and publish release notes: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/releases
• As needed, merge pull requests into release branches back into develop / spack-stack-dev
  • [release/2.0] Bug fix for eckit: handle new compression backend zip (libzip) for version 1.32+ spack-packages#26
  • release/2.0 Bugfix for eckit/libzip, update nrl_batch_install.sh (-i fms), update common packages_clang.yaml (ip openmp), update navy-aws site config #1838
  • [skip ci] Update NAS README #1841
  • [skip ci] Set UDUNITS2_XML_PATH in modules #1843 (or the preferred solution to update the udunits package itself - see udunits: set UDUNITS2_XML_PATH in environment spack/spack-packages#2729)
  • [release/2.0] Fix MET segfaults (fixup_rpath --> environment modification) spack-packages#29
  • [release/2.0] Fix MET segmentation faults in spack-packages, navy-aws site config updates round 2 #1844
• Close GitHub project