[Users] meeting minutes for 2026-01-29

[Roland Haas]

Present: Roland, Peter, Deborah, Aryan Saju, Beyhan, Cheng-Hsin,
Johnny, Maxwell, Nikolai, Noora, Steve

Chair: Deborah
Minutes: Roland

ET release planning
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* gallery examples is firming up
* timeline:
  https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Release_Details#Details_for_ET_2026_05
* currently ahead of schedule
* Beyhan will handle BHNS merger
* Johnny will run Poisson equation
* Noora will run axi-dilaton example
* tentatively starting examples April 1st once most changes are in
* Johnny may be able to run testsuite on Frontera
* Testsuite runner needed for expanse
* will need reviewers. Peter will review Bhahaha (champion is Zach)

Questions on mailing list
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* no questions found

Open tickets
============

* Roland is collecting tar files, Frank created them in the past, but
  they are lost
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2673/provide-historical-tar-archives-for-each

* Roland has started implementing STORAGE statements
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2913/support-enabling-disabling-storage-in

* Roland commented on
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2908/cactus-fixed-arg-list-too-long-error
  Max (Morris) will update

* Roland to take a look at
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2899/bhns-with-elliptica-assertion-all-offset
  on Marenostrum

* Peter and Zach plan to get back to, wanted to compare results
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/963/improve-mclachlan-accuracy

* Roland and Steve will pick up again on
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2909/remove-tags-from-interfaceccl
  Roland to add comments to ticket

* Steve and Roland discussed:
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2910/carpetx-add-option-to-exclude-boundaries
  Roland suggests that this was added to avoid outputting bad data in
  the physical boundary, asks whether it would not be better to have
  correct data there

* Re-review is required 
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2898/carpetx-interpolator-caches
  Poke Erik about review.

* Roland will provide a reproducer for
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2888/race-condition-writing-propertiesini-in

Tickets for review
==================

* Roland to look into
  https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2862/update-spacetimex-z4c-robust-stability

Any other business
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* North American ET School and Workshop at UIUC planning is ongoing, no
  firm date set yet. Will pick up again in the coming weeks.

Yours,
Roland

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