[Users] meeting minutes for 2026-09-24

[rhaas at mail.ubc.ca]

Present: Roland, Peter, Steve, Beyhan, Jordan, Maxwell, Nikolai, Zach

Transition wiki to GitHub
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* Steve presented current state of attempt to transition MediaWiki wiki
  to GitHub wiki
* please take a look at https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/wiki/wiki
* ticket at 
  https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2256
* access is controlled via GitHub org for ET

MacLachlan updates
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* Peter is still trying to run on LSU machines, will contact Steve to
  test out simfactory settings

Mailing list questions
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* Steve will respond to
  http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2026-September/010041.html
** Zach provided the inclusion criteria:
  https://www.einsteintoolkit.org/contribute.html
* we are not clear what to do about
  http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2026-September/010034.html

Open tickets
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* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2956 has a branch
  and Erik has a (separate) pull request
  https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/cactus/pull-requests/180 and
  https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/cactustest/pull-requests/7
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2974 Peter will
  take a look at this summation-by-parts contribution
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/719 concerns
  updating mailman, mailman 2 is now old enough to be no longer
  supported and we are in the process of upgrading to mailman 3
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2960
  "CarpetRegrid2: failure to regrid on relative radius change -
  possible underlying race condition" has a reproducer and should be
  addressed
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2965 "GetComponents
  option to obtain new branch", is looking for a reviewer. Steve will
  try
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2973 "Add support
  for Multi-step Runge-Kutta methods in CarpetX/ODESolvers" Steve is
  pushing to have this included
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2961
  "util_ExpressionEvaluate fails with custom evaluator" Steve has PR
  that he will link
* https://github.com/EinsteinToolkit/tickets/issues/2909 "Remove TAGS
  from interface.ccl" has comments

Yours,
Roland

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