Present: Roland, Peter, Steve, Leo, Andya, Sam, Samuel, Xinyue, Zach

ET release: * ET release manager search for 2024_05: Steve (main), Roland (asst) * Peter will update TOV gallery example * Steve found that BNS example differs in new release, Roland will try and run on his workstation to verify

Simfactory issues: * Steve has trouble getting simfactory to work on db1 for submission, it ignores sourcebasedir

Open tickets:

* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2770 Roland will report issue to ADIOS2

* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2771 Roland has been in contact with Wolfgang and Michal, they have implemented a similar fix in SGRID's master branch and Roland will backport

* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2520 Peter will re-run TOV example with updated parameters to see if there are visible changes

Chapter on ET in Springer book:

* Peter and Stefan Rosswog are adding SphincsBSSN code * Leo, Sam, Steve volunteer for ET section, will try and coordinate with Peter * will create skeleton for chapter, add division of space for codes * TODO: check if we need to describe BSSN codes * TODO: Roland to periodically poke * TODO: Roland to see if GRhydro authors can contribute

Code changes policy

* Samuel asked about how larger changes to contributed code are handled * Roland said that this is effectively up to the authors. The ET is conservative with changes to release branches that should be limited to obvious important bug fixes * For code changes the ET asks that all changes are reviewed but that does to have to be in the ET ticket system and could be code internal * Sam points out that changes that require changing parameter files need to have a deprecation warning for one release before they can be made

Yours, Roland