[Users] Meeting minutes for 08/20/26

[Deborah Ferguson]

Chair: Peter

Minute Taker: Deborah

Attendees: Beyhan, Deborah, Steve, Roland, Peter, Lucas, Noora, Johnny

- Accumulated updates after the release
    - no significant updates
- Atlassian retiring Bitbucket Cloud Issues
    - no news from Zach
    - Roland has taken a final backup of the issues as of today
    - it should be shut down today
- Mailing list questions
    - configuring for Hubble PBS cluster
        - Beyhan working on it
- Noora and Lucas have been working on adding the wiki page for using CarpetX
    - Added new bullet point under documentation for “choosing a driver”
    - The idea being to help people use CarpetX for simulations even though not all of it is in the release yet
    - This also involved Steve having to fix the wiki
- Issues
    - 2970
        - Roland working on silo compatibility issues with hdf5
    - 2729
        - Plan is to just remove it
        - replace it with something homegrown
    - 2909
        - removing TAGS from interface.ccl
        - ticket from Steve that Roland will review
    - 2961
        - Steve will work on it
    - 2958
        - Steve will check that this was applied to both the release branch and master branch
        - then it can be closed
    - 1077
        - related to 2961
    - 2965
        - GetComponents option to obtain new branch
            - a feature request to be considered
    - 2964
        - Test Derivs fails on stampede3
            - Claude had a proposed fix
            - It claims the arithmetic and vectorization is wrong and reaching out of bounds
            - We’re not sure we fully believe Claude
            - Steve will go back to try to understand the failure more thoroughly
    - 2962
        - Split the ET
            - bringing back the idea to split the ETK into two versions, one for Carpet and one for CarpetX
            - Steve will put together two thornlists so we can more solidly consider it
    - 1520
        - Piraha doesn’t adhere to flesh coding style
        - Steve will work on it
    - 1523
        - Use Piraha to parse all ccl files
            - still an issue with following the coding style guide
    - 1881
        - an issue with descriptive error messages for parameter files
        - Particularly about including line numbers in the error
        - Steve will look back into it
- AOB
    - Noora has been uploading the videos for the ETK workshop
        - Roland mentioned she can make it unlisted so she can send the link to people so they can look to see if it looks good
        - Done with uploading the first day
    - Noora will send around a poll for the ETK meeting time

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Deborah Ferguson
Assistant Professor
The University of Rhode Island

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