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Agenda for Thursday's Meeting
by rhaas＠illinois.edu 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Please update the Wiki with agenda items for Thursday's meeting. Thanks! https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/meeting_agenda --The Maintainers

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proposal to change Einstein Toolkit release cycle to be every 9 months instead every 6 months
by Roland Haas 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Hello all, During today's Einstein Toolkit call the proposal to reduce the Einstein Toolkit release frequency from every 6 months to every 9 months has been made. This would reduce the workload for the release manager and avoid the current situation where there is hardly any time between work for releases. Some discussion on relative merits and disadvantages of the 6 and 9 month release cycle were discussed but, also due to the small number of participants, no final decision has been reached. As such, and in accordance with the Einstein Toolkit guiding principles http://einsteintoolkit.org/guidelines.html the topic will be discussed in the Einstein Toolkit call next week, Thu Jan 16th, 2025 and a vote for acceptance or rejection will be held at that point. Please see the meeting minutes for details on the discussion: https://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2025-January/009535.html Yours, Roland -- My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from http://pgp.mit.edu .

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meeting minutes for 2025-01-09
by Roland Haas 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Present: Leo, Lucas, Maxwell, Roland, Steve, Zach simfactory issues on anvil ========================== * Maxwell had pointed out slowness of official files by a factor of 70 * Roland had tried to understand the root cause of the failure by modifying Maxwell's working files. So far is not exactly sure what is causing the issue * merge changes by Maxwell in to release simfactory LIBS issue in released Silo and PETSc ===================================== * Roland explained issue that causes build failures when configuring ExternalLibraries multiple times. Fixes exist in ticket: but needs testing upcoming ET possible inclusions =============================== * NewRadX boundary should be about ready, poke Cheng-Hsin * Z4c: want this in, Erik and Roland are champions, Steve and Peter are reviewers, needs testsuites * BHaHAHA Zach is still fine-tuning things, might have paper ready soon * CCE code should be in the works * Roland has to contact Hayley Macpherson release cycle ============= Zach brought up frequency of release, Steve suggests one could extend release cycle to 9 months in instead of 6 months. Roland mentions that time is fairly tight in between releases, even taking a "break" of 1 months means on is running late. Release preparation is quite a bit of work and makes it difficult to find volunteers. Lucas suggested reviewing the release process, trying to remove work items that are not always needed. Lucas suggests soliciting input and having a vote in the call, Roland will forward the suggestion to the mailing list Options for sequences are months of: 8 - 5 - 2 - 11 9 - 6 - 3 - 12 <-- vetoed by multiples 10 - 7 - 4 - 1 tickets ======= * https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2837 building-the-einstein-toolkit is help request * https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2843 update-fftw3-to-3310 looks correct to Leo * https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2840 supplement-rather-than-supercese-auto Roland reports that this helps with issues where either gsl-config or pkg-config report incorrect values * https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2839 look-for-multiple-flavors-of-hdf5-library is useful on macOS version tracking in ExternalLibraries ===================================== * Zach brought up the issue if tracking and guaranteeing specific minimum version of libraries provided by the ExternalLibraries * Roland points out that extracting the version number for an installed library is not always easy since it may involve having to parse a textual version string. Tools like gsl-info sometimes are lying. * An option to test for specific versions in C code are #if and #error preprocessor constructs Yours, Roland -- My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from http://pgp.mit.edu .

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Einstein Toolkit Meeting Reminder
by rhaas＠illinois.edu 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Hello, Please consider joining the weekly Einstein Toolkit phone call at 9:00 am US central time on Thursdays. For details on how to connect and what agenda items are to be discussed, use the link below. https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Main_Page#Weekly_Users_Call --The Maintainers

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Agenda for Thursday's Meeting
by rhaas＠illinois.edu 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Please update the Wiki with agenda items for Thursday's meeting. Thanks! https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/meeting_agenda --The Maintainers

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