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Group Leads coordinate and schedule development relevant to their group. They should have developers assigned to work on features in the order necessary to meet ACME's deliverables. Group leads should make sure developers are finishing their work and getting it merged to the ACME "master" branch.
Group Leads, Chief Scientist, and Chief Computational Scientist coordinate the order that The Coupled Model Group established the timeline for major new features (especially from two or more groups) that are added to needed for the model, relevant testing criteria, and when the master should be tagged (using the Branch, Tag, and Version name conventions) all timed to meet ACME deliverables. Integrators should be aware of the overall schedule for their component.
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