Teleconference 2021-02-24

Attendees:

ECP Updates

• ECP Annual Meeting
  • Registration is open
    • Will be virtual, registration is free
    • Everyone funded by ECP/VTK-m should register and plan to attend at least part of the meeting
  • Our project will need to create a poster
    • Looks like the design will be a traditional poster
    • Not totally clear how the poster session will work
    • Looks like they are planning on using a virtual meet space.
• Let's think about possible highlights
  • App engagement
  • Success with porting (e.g. run on Aurora)
  • Engagement with other ST teams (e.g. using Kokkos)
  • WDM
    • Submitted highlight on integration with EFFIS
    • Expect to submit another highlight when used in a big run
  • Possible highlight slide on particle advection with WarpX (Matt).

Porting Activities

• https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/STDA05/Porting+Activities+A21
• https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/STDA05/Porting+Activities+O21

ECP task updates

ECP/VTK-m Project Management

Roundtable

Wiki might go down real soon. Might need to capture.

We need some redesign design workflow for branchy release process

• When we create a VTK-m release, we have a branch for that release (at least until the subsequent release).
• New feature development continues on the main branch
• _Bug fixes_ happen off the release branch
  • Get merged to both the release branch and the master branch
• This in principal should already be supported by GitLab
  • Just create a merge request on a different branch
  • Will need to add support to gitlab-push
    • Ask VTK folks. They might just have a select few to do a special process.
  • Need to check that bot stuff works (CI builds, Do: merge, etc.)

Should think about releasing VTK-m 1.6, 2.0.

Filter redesign requirements: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk-m/-/issues/601

Matt working on WarpX highlight.

Rename master branch?

• Need to wait for some changes to git before the transition (for some automated features of repo).
• Can we for a time have a master that mirrors the new default?
  • Don't know, but seems possible. Will have to look into that.