Firedrake meeting 2025 06 11 - firedrakeproject/firedrake GitHub Wiki

Date and time 2025-06-11 1600 UTC

Action Items

  1. Pick Chair and Minuter (CW 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: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here) CW: PROGRESS!
  6. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
  7. JB: Enable merge queues (minutes)
  8. LC: Try to merge RNH' PR: Movable VOM
  9. PB: Profile and speed up some tests (minutes, minutes)
  10. CW: More testing configurations (minutes)
  11. All: Do post merge works (interpolate, abstract reduced functionals, etc.)
  12. CW: Preliminary prep for PETSc User Meeting 2026 (minutes)

Agenda

Present:

Apologies:

CW: PETSc user meeting

PETSc are happy with the suggested dates (1-5 June 2026).

DH: Can not announce date yet, but put up webpage with minimum amount of information.

CW: PETSc the begining of the week, Firedrake the end of the week?

CW: Add Firedrake 25 to website

GW is asking for something official to point to so he can start his travel clearance procedure.

CW: Ask Onno about the website.

CW: should we stop using our UFL fork?

https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4344

Yes.

CW: petsctools

JM wants to use it in pyadjoint but thinks the license might need to change.

DH: GPL does not propagate when distributing.

DH: Would put MIT on everything where possible.

DH: Expecting something like "Copyright (c) 2012. Imperial College London and others."

Discussion-worthy issues/PR

LC: (#4341) Vom to vom permutation matrix

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.

PB: ASM extruded periodic already approved

PB: Fix typo in test already approved

PB: Matfree SLATE dual fix already approved

PB: Demo was previously failing doc build for legit reason, now it is the usual broken link Merged

PB + KK: EquationBC + multigrid needs review, Name change requested, changed, approved.

KS: UFL CoefficientSplitter https://github.com/FEniCS/ufl/pull/341 Ask if it is ok to merge this on FEniCS channel.

KS: Firedrake counterpart https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4349 Changes requested.

PB: DirichletBC bugfix needs review but very simple Merged

PETSC link 403 error?

Ask Satish about it?

Next week

DH: Will not join the meeting next week.

Date of next meeting

1600 UTC 2025-06-18