[Users] Release plans

[Erik Schnetter]

I think we should exclude living people from our list of names.
Otherwise, "Tsingou" would be an ideal candidate name.

We could name the release "Maniac", in honour of the computer
mentioned in the paper, so that we can still refer to this story. They
call it "unprogrammable" there -- that property still holds for modern
machines...

-erik

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:59 PM, David Rideout <dprideout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you really want to name the release after a living person?  Might
> some form of permission be required?  Just wondering...
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Frank Loeffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> A new Einstein toolkit release is being prepared right now. In order to
>> make this happen, the current code base is largely "frozen", with only
>> small changes allowed to be made (bug fixes, documentation updates and
>> the like). This will be followed by a complete freeze next Monday (Nov
>> 10th), until the release a few days later.
>>
>> One suggestion for a release name (thanks Peter) is:
>>
>>  Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Choquet-Bruhat
>>
>> Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 29 December 1923 in Lille) is a French
>> mathematician and physicist. She was the first woman to be elected to
>> the Académie des Sciences Française ("French Academy of Sciences") and
>> is a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
>>
>> <snip> From 1951-1952 she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in
>> Princeton where she proved the local existence and uniqueness of
>> solutions to the vacuum Einstein Equations. <snip> At the Universite
>> Pierre et Marie Curie she continued to make significant contributions to
>> mathematical physics, notably in general relativity, supergravity, and
>> the non-Abelian gauge theories of the standard model.
>>
>> Please let us know if you disapprove, and/or if you want to nominate
>> someone else.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
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