Firedrake meeting 2025 08 13

Date and time 2025-08-13 1600 UTC

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (JHC to pick)
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. ALL: do things with SV's branches
4. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged TODO: FIND OUT WHICH PRS THESE ARE
5. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
6. LC: Try to merge RNH' PR: Movable VOM
7. PB: Profile and speed up some tests (minutes, minutes)
8. CW: More testing configurations (minutes)
9. All: Go through issues and mark with "good first issue" for new MSc/PhD contributor projects.
10. All: submit abstracts and register for Firedrake '25

Minutes

Present: CW (minuter), LC, KS, DH, RK, JHC, AA (RK postdoc), PB

Apologies: IM

LC: Cell location on simplicial bendy meshes https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4484

• FIAT #165 can be merged subject to RK review
• PR is ready to go subject to single interpolation change
• .at can be deprecated! And then deleted following the next major release.

Merge PRs

Note that PRs put in this section should either be trivial or already have been reviewed. Discussion-worthy PRs should be separate agenda items.

Date of next meeting

1600 UTC 2025-08-20