Present: Bill, Chris, Helvi, Maria, Peter, Roland, Sam, Steve, Zach
Chair: Zach Minutes: Roland
status and running of working groups:
* working groups have some strings attached and will be terminated for non-activity: https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/ET_Working_Group_Policies_and_Proce... * many working groups have stalled, eg the performance optimization group * more conference calls seem to not be the solution to ensure more activitiy * suggestion to establish a point of contact for the working group, so that there is a person that can speak up when a question relevant to the field are brought up * working groups need to contribute to progress in their area and report on this, should have a well defined goal * amend policy to add "last updated" date to established working groups link * revive regular working group updates in weekly telecons, add round-robin working group updates to telecons * solicit updates from chairs of working groups
link cactuscode.org into einsteintoolkit.org: * Steve is working on it but not yet done
review policy for code improvements: * Canuda and Lean have updates with new functionality (Llama) ready * IllinoisGRMHD also undergoing updates to use NRPy+ to generate parts of its code, adding more documenation as well, next goal is to add tabulated EOS
unreviewed changes: * due to the large number of "minor" and "trivial" fixes and enhancements that are outstanding, Roland is currently adopting the following deviation from the regular ET policy of every change needed review: (1) changes are proposed as pull requests and marked with "Please review" as usual, (2) if a change is trivial or minor and and is not commented on wihtin 2 weeks, add "Unless objected I will push this change after X" with X being 2 weeks in the future. Changes that fix physics bugs or are major will be announced explicitly and not applied without review. This gives 4 weeks of time before an unreviewed change is applied to master. * as a reminder: documentation changes are usually exempt from review
future chairs: Steve (Jan 9), Helvi (Jan 16) future minute takers: Bill (Jan 9), Steve (Jan 16) working group update: Optimization (Jan 9), IGRMHD (Jan 16)
No unanswered questions, no interesting new tickets.
22 open tickets in review state: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues?status=new&status=o...
There will be no calls over winter break. The next call will be Jan 9, 2020.
Yours, Roland