add option to adjust recdev settings automatically for retrospectives? about ss3-source-code HOT 1 OPEN

comment from @kellijohnson-NOAA on 2020-01-24:
The current behaviour of SS with respect to "last year of main recr_devs" is not consistent. Some of which is noted above, but not all. I am running a model where "last year of main recr_devs" is set to be "last year of data - 1". So, for a retro of 1 the "last year of main recr_devs" is not changed, but beyond a retro of 1 the control.ss_new file has the value changed to equal the last year of data for that retro. This led to non-convergence for this particular model. I don't necessarily think that there is a good best practices to implement for SS with respect to automatically changing the year when it is in the future relative to the last year of data, but potentially we could have SS put a warning in the warning.sso file when this happens to alert users what is going on.

from ss3-source-code.