Date and time 2025-07-30 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: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
6. JB: Enable merge queues (minutes)
7. LC: Try to merge RNH' PR: Movable VOM
8. PB: Profile and speed up some tests (minutes, minutes)
9. CW: More testing configurations (minutes)
10. All: Do post merge works (abstract reduced functionals, etc.)
11. All: Go through issues and mark with "good first issue" for new MSc/PhD contributor projects.

Agenda

Present:

Apologies:

LC: Refactor interpolate: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4432

• New since last time: fixes in Gusto are now merged.
• Merged.

EnsembleFunction: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4025

• New since last time - Manual page.
• TODO: Collate the code in the manual into a test and insert code blocks into the manual page from the test.

Reviewing PR backlog.

• pyproject dependency groups #4463
• Improve install docs #4461
• Point data assimilation demo #4315
• Abstract reduced functional branches can be merged once master branches are merged in and passing.

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: TFS empty shape

• A sane and good thing to do - except for the failing test. Merge once test is passing.

Date of next meeting

1600 UTC 2025-08-06