Refactor expts manager tool iss42

[minghangli-uni]

Refactor the Experiment Manager tool into modular scripts for better readability and maintainence. See #42

[minghangli-uni]

Hi @dougiesquire , could you please review this PR when you are available?

[minghangli-uni]

Hello @aidanheerdegen @jo-basevi, this perturbation tool has been around for a while and we’re aware that payu offers similar functionalities for perturbation experiments with a helpful tutorial available on the forum.

@chrisb13, @dougiesquire, and I today had a discussion, and we agreed it would be valuable to have your review of this perturbation tool. We’re not looking for an in-depth code review but would appreciate your thoughts on the overall code structure and how this package aligns or overlaps with what you’ve been considering for similar tools, particularly in relation to Payu. We’d also appreciate your input regarding provenance tracking.

Our current plan is to carefully manage these tools, including this one, om3-utils, and make_diag_table to ensure they are well-structured and maintainable, and aligned with broader development goals.

Some notes:

1. This tool will be moved out of its current repo but placed into a new repo to improve clarity and maintainability.
2. The tool currently clones the om3-utils repo as part of its workflow since it relies on some parsers from that repo. We plan to remove this auto-cloning feature and instead manage dependencies through proper Python packaging.

[minghangli-uni]

Closing this issue, as the functionality is now covered by two separate repos:

• https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-experiment-generator
• https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/access-experiment-runner