Present were: Roland, Frank, Ian, Seth, Eloisa, Bruno, Erik, Peter, Tanja, Philipp
ET goals/issues:
* tickets/trac: - we seem to have a relatively large number of quite old tickets - seem to be doing ok in closing and fixing most current tickets - advertise existence of trac mailing list to mailing list. It is currently mentioned on http://einsteintoolkit.org/community/support/ but not in a very prominent place
* there is a suggestion of moving away from using CCT accounts for trac/svn etc and instead generate independent ET accounts for this so as to not share a single password for shell accounts and less-critical accounts. It would also simplify creating trac-only accounts for users. Not conclusion was reached.
* we want to keep the regular ET call at a once a week frequency, otherwise the danger is that participants might forget
* using git repositories instead of svn - want to support mixed sets of repositories - general desire to support git through ET. No decision of whether we want to host these repositories ourself or use an external hoster. - most likely candidate to switch: GRHydro - if/when switching, provide tutorial or link to tutorial for new git users - expect no (or low) impact or read-only users that get a checkout via GetComponents - a desire to be able to use git-svn in GetComponents was voiced but not further discussed. Note that a ticket exists for this https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/762
* we would like to expand the existing gallery of pictures https://secure.flickr.com/photos/48081610@N03 * movies would be very welcome
* we would like to provide installation instructions for ET on "common" OSs: some variant of Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat?) and MacOSX detailing the packages to install and simfactory option files to use. Preferably starting from a "default" install of the OS. Some initial work is on https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Simplified_Tutorial_for_New_Users
* want to add gfortran to default simfactory options file (generic.cfg) * want Cactus build system to probe for gfortran since it is almost always present and needed for basic thorns, eg. Carpet. Cactus itself should not require gfortran though
* Frank will not be able to host next weeks call, so Roland will do so
Yours, Roland