Firedrake meeting 2025 08 06

Date and time 2025-08-06 1600 UTC

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (JHC 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.

Minutes

Present: KS RK CW IM JHC

Apologies: DH

UFL error on CI

https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/actions/runs/16777757965/job/47507893616?pr=3941

Error message appears on CI but not locally.

2 FAILED firedrake-repo/tests/firedrake/regression/test_periodic_interval_advection.py::test_periodic_1d_advection_parallel[DG0] - AttributeError: 'Sum' object has no attribute 'coefficients'

• Advised to fix adjoint failures first as global state may be polluted.

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.

Date of next meeting

1600 UTC 2025-08-13