Date and time 2025-08-27 1600 UTC

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (anyone 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. LC: Try to merge RNH' PR: Movable VOM
7. PB: Profile and speed up some tests (minutes, minutes)
8. CW: More testing configurations (minutes)
9. All: Go through issues and mark with "good first issue" for new MSc/PhD contributor projects.
10. LC: Deprecate .at() (minutes)

Agenda

Present: DH, KS, LC, RK, JHC, IM, PB, CC

Apologies: CW

NB - Failing tests on CI

• Links - awaiting info from Leeds, links may need to be reactivated
• UFL - FormArgument not resolving. Probably related to recent upstream changes in UFL
• PETSc Line Search failure - upstream API change. Patch Firedrake main now - KS to fix.

LC: Change missing_points_behaviour API https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4524

PR approved. Merged despite tests due to above failures. to be announced to the community as it is an API change.

LC: Cell location on bendy meshes: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4517

Approved, merged as above

LC: Fix permutation matrix for Vector/Tensor valued function spaces: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4510

Approved, merged as above

LC: PointEvaluator: https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4516

Changes requested.

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.

Also reviewed https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/pull/4515 - API change breaks downstream packages so these will need to be updated

Date of next meeting

1600 UTC 2025-09-03