Firedrake meeting 2023 09 20

Date and time 2023-09-20 16:00 BST (1500 UTC)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (RNH 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 (update!)
4. ALL: do things with SV's branches
5. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged
6. DH: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here)
7. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
8. DH: Revisit PR#2484.

Agenda

Present:

Apologies:

JB: Need to merge Tom Bendall's update of BDMC PR

I didn't have sufficient permission

JB: Scheduled GH Actions time out after something like 60 days of inactivity

Noticed this when the website wasn't being updated automatically. I think this keepalive workflow would work for us. This is largely a reminder for me to do this, but bringing it to everyone's attention: Rebuilding the website currently requires a manual step

NB: Dualspace PRs

Firedrake: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/2294

Pyadjoint: https://github.com/dolfin-adjoint/pyadjoint/pull/70

CW: Homebrew Python seems to be broken

We are failing to install on some machines as the latest homebrew Python cannot programmatically create a venv. It's weird. I have been asking users to install with pyenv instead and even written a wiki article explaining how. Should we recommend pyenv instead of homebrew on the website?

Merge PRs

• Cross-mesh interpolation extrusion fix and extra tests #3092
• CW: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/3109
• CW: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/tsfc/pull/298 and https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/3110

Date of next meeting

1600 BST (1500 UTC) 2023-09-27