November Chat Meeting

Wednesday, 2017-11-01, 11am EDT

Location: https://gitter.im/chimad-phase-field/chat-meeting-3

Previous Meeting: https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/wiki/October-Chat-Meeting

Etherpad for live note taking: https://etherpad.net/p/chimad-phase-field-chat3

Agenda

• Meta Issues

  • Any editing or involvement issues?
  • Review agenda
  • More involvement in chat meetings - others that have attended workshops, but don't participate, sign up for mailing list

• Action items from last meeting

• Website User Stories by Trevor and Andrea

  • break some of these ideas out into issues?

• Changes to website mission statement (#482) and name (#510)

  • Please add some more names
  • current statement is 84 words on front page, so probably <100 words

• Need more help reviewing pull requests

  • need 2 reviewers per pull request, only Trevor right now
  • would be nice to have pool of 4 more available ideally
  • great way to get involved with minimal commitment!

• Please email me to have your name added to the community page.

• Review website changes

  • finished milestone 0.4: "Simplify the site by merging the benchmark and simulation sections as well as other small changes and remove a lot of the cruft in the navbar to have "Home", "Benchmarks", "about" and maybe "Workshops"."
  • Merged pull requests since last meeting
    • link to specs 3 and 4 on front page
    • Upload ribbon
    • Guyer UX suggestions
      • no longer referring to "simulations" on website only using "benchmark results"
      • New navbar links
      • About guide
      • Involvement guide
    • Automated coffeescript testing and linting on Travis CI
    • Improve look and feel of community page

• Meeting about new MMS problem - benchmark problem 7

• DOIs?

  • Who to talk to?
  • DOI for each notebook?
  • DOI for each upload? https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/issues/472

• Versioning benchmarks

  • Is our current method sufficient?
  • Need to address this now before benchmarks start changing

• Please add to the agenda?

Action Items

See https://etherpad.net/p/chimad-phase-field-chat3 for the notes during the meeting.

• Get more people involved with the chat meetings:
  • Begum
  • Olle's new postdoc
  • Mike Tonks and/or Pierre-Clement (Larry Aagesen)
  • Edwin Garcia (Daniel Wheeler)
  • Someone from Nik Provatas group
  • Distribution list of meeting attendees
  • Ask people to join the mailing list so that they know about the chat meetings.
• Help with pull requests:
  • Can now assign Andrea, Daniel Schwen, Trevor and Jon Guyer
  • Need a few more!
  • Create a pull request review guide (Trevor), https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/issues/535
  • Email mailing list about helping with pull request after guide is created
• User stories
  • Third coauthor to look over edit user stories (other than Andrea and Trevor)
  • Incorporate DOI usage into user stories (Trevor)
• Find some outsiders to review the user stories (Steve and hopefully others)
• Set up a poll for short name and long name after Trevor agreed (Daniel Wheeler)
  • PFHub is popular
• Talk to Casey Hume and Ben B. about DOIs for both the benchmarks and uploads (Daniel Wheeler)
• Include DOI on upload form if benchmark results are stored on a site with DOIs (Daniel Wheeler), https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/issues/472
• Issue with resizing the website - https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/issues/531 (Daniel Wheeler)
• Have the benchmark ribbon only on the front page (and relevant pages) and only at the top (Daniel Wheeler), https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/issues/532
• Set up poll for next meeting (Daniel Wheeler)
• Put Guyer on community page (Daniel Wheeler), https://github.com/usnistgov/chimad-phase-field/issues/534