ok, great. I’m familiar with git and will try my best to bring our patches into the main branch. How should we proceed?
While I can’t pay you, I can also offer to help you with learning git. I also switched from svn, and despite the steep learning curve and sometimes unlogical syntax, I did not regret this switch for a second.
Regarding certified code: Compilers might have regressions, hardware might behave differently than expected. So switching to a new version of gfortran, changing hardware, etc. would need to trigger the expensive review request if the review process is really meant to detect bugs. Probably these ‘certifications’ just serve as an alibi for legal reasons. Unit tests are standard in 2021. Having a code for nuclear energy without a test suite that can cope with a small syntax change is just careless. If no one dares to touch a code even for a minor change, I would consider it broken.