2026 meeting notes

[hjoliver]

Following on from #200

[hjoliver]

March 2026

First 2026 meeting, post UK Cylc 8 operations migration 🎉

Agenda

Site updates (Cylc and people)

• NZ
  • Hub deployment quirks (worker pool, monitoring, hub Cylc versions)
• UK
  • ops migration?
• AU
  • JR's "Unified View" and "status monitor" main loop plugin
• Any possible sources of resourcing beyond present?

General topics:

• what kind of a post-migration roadmap can we consider at this point?

  • 1. deal with massive backlog of PRs resulting that piled up during NZ and UK migrations (HPC and ops)
  • 2. high priority issues, and site priorities - see below

• what important topics might require dedicated follow-up meetings?

• minor: close Element chat rooms that we no longer use?

Milestones and prioritization

• https://github.com/orgs/cylc/projects/2/views/2
• NZ
  • Isolated graphs (startup, shutdown, ...) cylc-flow#7020 - DS: "I think about this one everyday at ESNZ (waiting with "baited breath") - awaiting proposal
  • reinstate no-spawn option for remove cylc-flow#7134 - I think we need to acknowledge that some "branch cutting" interventions are the easiest and most intuitive in some circumstances (it depends on the graph) and for some users, and so should be supported.

AOB:

• support for file-driven workflows is increasingly important task message: support file path patterns cylc-flow#6811 dynamic skip mode, e.g. for file-driven workflows cylc-flow#7222
  • OS: This is big topic, suggest collecting these matters and discussing them in a dedicated meeting.

[oliver-sanders]

March 16/17

General:

• Summary of available Cylc development resource for the next year.
• Any possible sources of resourcing beyond present?
• Oliver: Cloud deployment barriers/friction.
• David S: one-pager for partnership funding

Priority topics:

• https://github.com/cylc/cylc-admin/wiki/March-2026:-Priority-development-areas-(Oliver's-list)
• MO Operator priorities
• https://github.com/orgs/cylc/projects/2/views/2