[Users] meeting minutes for 2015-11-23

[Roland Haas]

Present: Frank, Roland, Yosef, Eloisa, Erik

HDF5 auto-detection:
* Yosef reports that some installations use a file H5pub.h H5pub_x86.h
(or similar)
* Yosef will create a ticket

Tracers in GRHydro:
* implement Ian Hawke's proposed solution

LORENE:
* provide LORENE thorn LORENE format introduced
* poll users and once majority uses the newer version, then switch over

Release process:
* Roland asks for opinions on the release process
** timeliness
** care taken releasing it
** participation of maintainers
* Erik mentions that if there are no large changes and the community
does not request them this frequent, then it may not be required to have
a release every 6 months
* Frank uses regular 6 monthly releases so that there is a fairly modern
released and tested version to base new projects off
* Roland suggests that a release should have a clear "extra value"
compared to trunk from two weeks ago. Suggest to have a major new
feature (like IllinoisGRMHD, or MHD) or at least if we claim it to be
stable code we should be able to show proof of this by having some
largish science simulations that are doable
* Eloisa suggests to not insist on this to stringently on always having
a major new feature and set a goal that is so ambitious that we let the
releases slip. Having fewer releases may not actually mean less work
overall since larger intervals accumulate more changes that are then
harder to track.
* suggestions for groups:
** showcase about DG methods from Erik
** BNS with Llama from Roland
** Yosef help for BBH

There will be a ET meeting next week Monday again (after US Thanksgiving).

Yours,
Roland

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