[Users] Meeting minutes

[Peter Diener]

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Roland Haas wrote:

> Present were: Frank, Peter, Roland, Yosef, Christian, Josh, Ian, Bruno,
> Tanja, Erik
>
> ET release:
> * almost all test suites pass on almost all machines
> ** QLM failures likely due to tolerances

Correction. The QLM failures on Pandora is due to the compiler generating 
illegal instructions causing the test to fail without generating output.

> ** SphericalHarmonicRecon compiler and MPI specific, only happen on
> non-essential machines
> ** Exact: suspect finite difference issues (2nd order) inside Exact, had
> similar problems during the last release, will not fix
> * remaining milestone tickets:
> ** Ian/Erik will write a transition guide from perl to python version of
> simfactory (#633)
> ** lonestar (645): issue is intermittend, resubmitting allows the job to
> start. Remove milestone.
> ** thornlist in tutorial (#647): tutorial will be replaced by python
> one, will update link at this time (Erik/Ian)
> ** EOS Omni transition guide (#633): is already in thorn documentation,
> remove milestone but leave ticket open to expand the guide.
> * PDF docuementation builds, HTML is still believe to not build. Ian
> will try again and upload a copy of the html docs once they compile
> * mention MHD support in GRHydro release notes
> * Roland will work through the tutorial once all branches are created
> and the thornlist updated
> * re-run release branch test suites on some machine to make sure there
> is not typo
> * offer prominent download link (and tarball?) on ET start page
> * will release tomorrow (Tuesday Oct. 25th 2011)
>
> ET paper:
> * cite MHD paper as "in preparation" instead of stating that MHD has not
> yet been released
> * tov collapse: look at point halfway between surface and centre as
> well, finish this during this week
> * fix science content by Friday
> * finish paper by mid November
> * Josh will give the paper a second language read-through after Thursday
>
> Yours,
> Roland
>
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Cheers,

   Peter