Firedrake meeting 2021 02 17

Date and time 2021-02-17 16:00UTC (16:00GMT)

Action Items

Pick Chair and Minuter.
ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)

Minutes

Present: DH, LM, RN, RK, CW, DS, KS, NB, PB, SV, JB, PK

Apologies:

Raspberry Pi:

Musings about installing Firedrake on a Raspberry Pi

LM: PSA

Please add feature requests to issues and do things "in the open" as opposed to on Slack, where the messages are lost after ~6 weeks. Please continue to help by reviewing PRs and triaging issues.

Fenics21

Deadline is Saturday 20th Feb.

Loopy Sprint

Please fill in doodle poll if you want to take part: https://doodle.com/poll/5ymrbr4xpx4yx673?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

Merge PRs:

#1948 Python 3.9, changes required

#1975 Ensemble, requires changes

#1970 Add opencascade, merged

#1958 OpenCascadeMeshHierarchy in Complex mode is dependent on changes in #1970

#1971 Test new testing element in FIAT and FInAT: Dependent on an upstream argument in FIAT land, see https://github.com/FEniCS/fiat/pull/64

Some discussion about the possible implementation of an elephant oracle 🐘. Where in all of the different libraries do things have be changed to add a new element? What libraries are we happy to have extra dependencies (ie: should FInAT depend on UFL?)

#1936 Fixed warning generated by if L is 0, re-run on Jenkins

#1963 Implement PMGSNES, changes requested. Issues surrounding tensor products of serendipity elements. Action PB: add comments to own code in this PR

#1909 Plotting refactor. Should we refactor Firedrake so as not to import plot by default and instead move to firedrake.plot