Firedrake meeting 2026 03 05

Date and time 2026-03-05 1600 UTC+1

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (LC 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. CW: More testing configurations (minutes)
7. DH: Trim github organisation teams member.
8. CW: Draft policy for requirements for contributor/author recognition. Done

Minutes

Present: CW (minuter), JHC, DH, CC, LC, PB

Apologies: IM

CW: Breaking API suggestion in a very minor way

https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/issues/4941

DH: This is sensible, approval for the change given.

PB: mesh centre of mass method, nice to have

• DH: project coords into R and then subtract off coordinates
• DH: let's not go there right now

DH: Making VoM scalable

• JHC: MPI Alltoall might be the right answer

Merge PRs

Various reviewed and some merged.

Date of next meeting

1600 UTC 2026-03-12