[Users] Meeting minutes for 09/17/26

[Deborah Ferguson]

Chair: Roland

Minute taker: Deborah

Attendees: Deborah, Roland, Jordan, Peter, Maxwell, Zach, Nikolai, Ameen, Yuhua, Lucas



Accumulated updates after the release

- AMRex merged in

- Mchlachlan updates

	- peter has been able to compile, but having some run issues

Status of issues on github

- the new tickets based on github are now up

- yet to update the website

- some tickets ready to be added to it

- tickets are now authored by a bitbucket-to-github transition bot

- mentions resolve as a hash instead of a username

	- you may have an email inviting you to join the ETK organization

- ping tickets if need be to adjust update times

- thank you Zach for all his work

- Jordan suggesting sending an email to the mailing list about this (will be done soon)

Potentially hosting the wiki on github

- reduce LSU reliance

- previously considering doing this on bitbucket (old issue: https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2256)

- github wiki seems better so may be worth it

- things to consider

	- we want tables

	- media wiki does have more capability, anything we need?

Unanswered questions

- New thorn proposal

	- will be discussed over email

- Independent researcher wanting to use ETK to test a theory

	- possibly an AI?

Issues:

- GetComponents suggestion / pull request from Jordan

	- adds options to switch branch

	- Roland isn’t sure whether this will fully make it updatedable

		- would need to also adjust symbolic links

		- likely would get you 80% of the way there

- Cottonmouth

	- is already included, not sure why the ticket is still open

	- Lucas will look into

- FUKA ticket from Samuel Tootle

	- Peter will take a look

	- will see if Samuel can join a call at some point

- Regression in TwoPuncturesX

	- Zach thinks this has been resolved

	- wait to discuss next week

- BHNS gallery example

	- needs to be closed

- BHaHAHA

	- needs to be closed

	- also close its duplicate

- CapyrX has been postponed

- CarpetRegrid2 bug

	- Jordan provided a reproducer with a minimal example

	- Jordan will ping it to bring it to the top

AOB

- Zach tells us to expect a few new thorns from his side for the next release

	- Baikal update coming soon to be much faster

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Deborah Ferguson
Assistant Professor
The University of Rhode Island

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