I have for a while been hoping that my group will take on some of the responsibilities of maintaining xGCM for the long-term, but over the last 2 years had been focusing on growing and fundraising for my new group at UC Irvine. Now that we’re fairly spun up, it would be a good time for me to entrain some of my PhD students and postdocs.
Our group is focused entirely on physical oceanography applications of xGCM but this aligns pretty naturally with the package’s history, so I don’t see that as a problem.