[Dune-devel] Online developer/user meeting 2022

[Christoph Grüninger]

Hi Simon,

thank you for bringing this up! I offer my help organizing a dev 
meeting. I have created an initial MR for our website, see 
dune-website!403. I think it is a good idea to have the meeting in 
February or March.
I don't think it is the right time for a user meeting.

Some topics out of my head, which I added the page of !403:

- Drop Support for Debian 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 and reduce the number of 
setups (probably migrate some to newer distro versions) in our testing 
pipeline

- How to proceed with the deprecated dune-grid-howto? We should move it 
out of core and create some "attic" or "graveyard" project in GitLab.

- Remove git tags and tarballs for release candidates. They clutter the 
folder / tag output for no benefit. We could keep the RCs for the last 
stable release.

- Future of Alberta bindings and Alberta.

Bye
Christoph


Am 19.12.21 um 12:05 schrieb Simon Praetorius:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I want to bring up a suggestion of Christoph and others to have a 
> regular online developer meeting to advance the Dune development, to 
> recap what was happening in the last year, to look into the future where 
> we want to go and also to get together with the community. A bit more 
> than one year ago we started to plan the 2021 meeting. So, let's think 
> about the 2022 meeting now, e.g. for the first quarter of the upcoming 
> year.
> 
> - who want's to organize the meeting? Maybe 2-3 people need to organize s our
> the technical and organizational aspects, collect the topics, create a 
> program, send the invitation and update the website... I would be 
> willing to be part of the organizing team.
> - when to have the meeting? Maybe like last year at the end of January 
> or (at least in Dresden) after the end of the lecture time around mid of 
> February. Once a general period is decided, we can create a dudle to 
> choose a date.
> - do we want to have a pure developer meeting, or is it time to have 
> also a user meeting (the last official one was 2018)
> - what are topics to discuss? Some suggestions:
> 
>      * Python bindings are now enabled by default. There are some open 
> issues that need to be discussed
>      * New developers for the core developer team? Some others might 
> want to be put in the alumni section?
>      * Overhaul the linear-algebra part of dune-common (maybe involving 
> dune-istl) - there are several issues and proposals regarding this topic.
>      * CMake improvements (goes slowly, mainly because I don't dare to 
> click on the merge button and some developments need to be tested in a 
> larger setup)
>      * Future directions and old topics (dunecontrol, duneproject, 
> config.h, re-licensing, code-of-conduct, new Dune logo, c++ modules, c++ 
> concepts...)
>      * Lot's of issues and MRs that could be closed/worked on during the 
> meeting
>      * Next Dune release 2.9?
> 
> Best wishes and have a nice fourth advent.
> 
> Simon