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Fresh fork lacks documentation for consumer hardware deployment, offline usage, and known upstream issues. This adds comprehensive guides addressing GPU memory constraints, offline deployment, and fork governance.

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User Guides

Fork Management

  • FORK_GUIDE.md (303 lines) - Upstream sync strategies, GitHub configuration checklist, community management guidelines.
  • ROADMAP.md (321 lines) - Strategic planning template with milestone tracking and upstream issue integration.
  • SECURITY.md (329 lines) - Vulnerability disclosure process, security best practices, dependency scanning policy.
  • REPOSITORY_CONFIG.md (405 lines) - Step-by-step GitHub setup: enable Issues, add 15 topics, configure Discussions, branch protection rules.

Navigation

  • DOCUMENTATION_INDEX.md (311 lines) - Central hub linking all guides with usage recommendations.
  • README.md - Added fork identification, philosophy statement, and links to new guides.

Issue Templates

  • fork_specific.yml - Template for fork-specific bugs with upstream comparison checklist.
  • hardware_compatibility.yml - Structured hardware compatibility reporting (GPU model, memory usage, performance metrics).

Example: GPU Optimization

# Before: Crashes with OOM on 16GB GPU
model = GraphCastOperational.load_model(package)  # Requires 24GB

# After: Runs with optimizations
model = GraphCastOperational.load_model(package).half()  # 12GB
torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True
with torch.no_grad(), torch.cuda.amp.autocast():
    output = model(input)

Manual Configuration Required

These require GitHub web interface access (~30 min):

  1. Enable Issues → Settings → Features
  2. Add topics: weather-forecasting, climate-modeling, pytorch, gpu-optimization, etc.
  3. Enable Discussions → Settings → Features → 6 categories
  4. Configure branch protection → Settings → Branches

See REPOSITORY_CONFIG.md for detailed steps.

Coverage

Total: 11 files, 3,361 lines, ~89KB of documentation

Original prompt

I'll analyze the repository to identify areas for improvement. Let me gather information about the repository's current state, issues, and structure.Based on my analysis of the synapticore/earth2studio repository (a fork of NVIDIA/earth2studio created 1 day ago), here are key areas that should be improved:

Areas for Improvement

1. Repository Configuration

Since this is a fresh fork, you should:

  • Enable Issues: Currently disabled (has_issues: false). Enable them to track work specific to your fork
  • Add Topics/Tags: No topics are set. Add relevant tags like weather-forecasting, climate-modeling, deep-learning, pytorch, etc. to improve discoverability
  • Enable Discussions: Consider enabling GitHub Discussions for community Q&A
  • Update Description: Customize the description to explain what makes your fork unique (if applicable)

2. Known Issues from Upstream (NVIDIA/earth2studio)

The parent repository has several open issues you may want to address:

Bugs:

Feature Requests:

3. Documentation Questions

Recent issues show users need help with:

4. Strategic Improvements

5. Fork-Specific Considerations

Since you just forked this repository:

  • Define your fork's purpose and roadmap
  • Decide whether to stay in sync with upstream or diverge
  • Set up contribution guidelines if accepting PRs
  • Configure CI/CD for your specific use case

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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits January 28, 2026 09:42
@bjoernbethge
Add comprehensive fork documentation and configuration guides
21ecd6d 
- Add FORK_GUIDE.md for fork maintainers
- Add LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT.md for offline/air-gapped deployments
- Add GPU_OPTIMIZATION.md for consumer hardware (8-16GB GPUs)
- Add KNOWN_ISSUES.md documenting upstream issues and workarounds
- Add ROADMAP.md template for fork development planning
- Add SECURITY.md with security policy
- Add REPOSITORY_CONFIG.md with manual configuration steps
- Update README.md with fork information and links
- Add fork-specific and hardware compatibility issue templates

Co-authored-by: bjoernbethge <8515720+bjoernbethge@users.noreply.github.com>
@bjoernbethge
Add documentation index for easy navigation
9deb453 
- Add DOCUMENTATION_INDEX.md with complete guide overview
- Include navigation table and document summaries
- Add statistics and maintenance schedule
- Link all documentation resources

Co-authored-by: bjoernbethge <8515720+bjoernbethge@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Update repository configuration for better usability Add documentation suite and configuration guides for fork Jan 28, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from bjoernbethge January 28, 2026 09:47
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