[Users] meeting minutes for 2023-04-27

[Roland Haas]

Present: Roland, Peter, Leo, Steve, Zach, Sam, Yosef

ET release:

* Elliptica Reader will be postponed to next release
** needs a library of ID
** comparison between ET and published result
* FUKA: on track
* partialTracer_ET: on track
* release managers will start drafting release announcement
* release date is: 2023-05-24

Testsuite status:
* newly failing test in GRHydro_InitData/magtov_poloidal
** Peter debugged and found that issue is with Fortran if condition.
Fortran does not short-circuit logic or guarantee order of evaluation.
Peter will file pull request.

Unanswered question:
*
http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2023-April/008906.html Cactus hangs on startup. Steve had been in contact with Shamin Haque about this. Problem still persists even in most recent try. Steve will respond.

Tickets on mailing list:
* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2719 issue in
  GetComponents when dealing with symbolic links. Workaround exists.
  Currently affects KadathThorn
* https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2623 compile
  failure when paths contain ":". Had some discussion of updating or
  replacing autoconf in Cactus with something else.

Tickets ready for review:
* in code freeze state, only important bug fixes

SPECv8 review
* waiting to hear back from SPEC organizers
* contribution still on track to be included

CarpetX:
* Zach asked about any horizon finder for CarpetX based runs
** Roland says that currently no working version exists
** AHFinderDirect may be portable using Sam's and Roland's work to
interface CarpetX's interpolator interface with Cactus' interpolator
interface. Native CarpetX may already include support for derivatives.
** Sam worked on interpolator but also no longer quite recalls the
current state

next chair: Peter
next minute taker: Steve

Yours,
Roland
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