Dear Zach et al.,
thank you for your e-mail and your general willingness to contribute some of your code to the Einstein Toolkit.
This is an open discussion. Te opinions that I am voicing in this e-mail are my personal opinions and I am not speaking for the ET toolkit consortium nor the team of maintainers. Others among this team may have other opinions.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:28:14PM -0600, Zach Etienne wrote:
- Contributing to ET
Though it may not be compliant with the ET coding standards (e.g., we only handle the "double" data type), our changes to the Carpet infrastructure have been thoroughly tested, and we would be willing to contribute this code to the ET SVN. In return, we would like to work more closely with those of you who have access to the multipatch "cubed-spheres" code. Would you be willing to share this code with us?
Many people and groups have contributed codes and much time to the Einstein Toolkit project without receiving "a return" in the form of access to code that is currently not public and nor generally used or owned by the entire group of maintainers. I think it would be highly unfair to make such a "trade" with one particular group and I will personally not support such an agreement.
What you would get -- and what everybody gets who contributes -- is respect, pride, and acknowledgement (and citations) for contributing code to the Einstein Toolkit as open source. Should you decide to actively help with the Toolkit and its maintenance, you will also be able to co-author a future follow-up ET paper.
Moreover, we have just recently submitted a grant proposal to NSF for renewal of the grant supporting much of the Einstein Toolkit work done at LSU, Georgia Tech, RIT, and Caltech. Part of our proposal is to bring multi-block (cubed-sphere) grids and infrastructure as open source to the Einstein Toolkit. So, should we receive funding to carry out this research/development and should you decide to be actively involved in this, I think you would be more than welcome to have early access to the development version of the planned multi-block improvements.
Best regards,
- Christian Ott