Firedrake meeting 2023 08 30

Date and time 2023-08-30 16:00 BST (1500 UTC)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (CW to pick minuter)
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. JB: Move PyOP2 and FInAT to firedrakeproject
4. ALL: do things with SV's branches
5. ALL: discuss preparation for Firedrake User meeting
6. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged
7. DH: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here)
8. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
9. DH: Revisit PR#2484.
10. NB: PP24 minisymposium update

Minutes

Present: JB, DD, CW, DH, RK, RNH

Apologies: NB (sick)

Firedrake23 Update:

Programme is available, participants have been emailed, website will be updated soon (see next item).

SysGenX Meeting Update:

• Connor and Pablo will work on local sparse tensors.
• Jack and Igor will discuss GPUs.
• Also UFL things.

RNH: Doc building is broken again

See for example https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/actions/runs/6009640862/job/16299473406?pr=3067

This is "fixed" in https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/3083 (but please never write code like this).

Merge PRs

• #3082 Website update for Firedrake23 (Rebase)
• #3073 Block sparsity fix - Remove package branch and approved
• RNH Parallel Compatible Cross-Mesh Interpolation #3067 - Changes requested

Date of next meeting

1600 BST (1500 UTC) 2023-09-06