Firedrake meeting 2024 04 17

Date and time 2024-04-17 1600 BST (1500 UTC)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (KS to pick)
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. JB: Move pyop3 and FInAT to firedrakeproject
4. ALL: do things with SV's branches
5. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged TODO: FIND OUT WHICH PRS THESE ARE
6. DH: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here)
7. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
8. DH: Order more Firedrake stickers
9. JB: Enable merge queues (minutes)
10. JB: FML + Gusto
11. JB: build numpy release candidate (CW: I did this, but we should maybe wait to use actual releases instead of release candidates before merging?)

Notices

1. Submit abstract for PDESoft 1-3 July 2024, Cambridge, UK PDESoft (Registration early 28th March/late 31st May, Abstracts 17th May)
2. PETSc User Meeting 23-24 May 2024 Cologne, Germany PETSc User Meeting (Registration and Abstracts 11th April)
3. Firedrake User Meeting 16-18 September 2024 Firedrake (Registration/Abstracts TBD)
4. pyop3 sprint is next week (Monday to Friday) at Imperial. More information can be found here.

Agenda

Present: JB, DH, DD, KS, CW, DV

Apologies: NB

CW: Built with numpy 2.0

Things seem to work!

pyop3 sprint

Is happening! Meeting at 10am each day, preferably in person, but online will be available. DH may not be on site on Friday.

DD: Fixing Cofunction.sub with adjoint

Generalising merge blocks (DD: #3470).

DH: We're behind UFL issue

UFL finite element: Reference space or physical space? Firedrake and TSFC need updating to use new code.

CW: optimize.py

🤣

JB: Another manual release

DH: Maybe not needed (yet). At this point David got distracted and started reading a paper.

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.

• DH: #3505 Fix docs for interpolate (merged)
• JB: #3348 PETSc Needs another look

Date of next meeting

1600 BST (1500 UTC) 2024-04-24