[gpaw-users] Summary of last weeks users and developer meeting

[Jens Jørgen Mortensen]

On 06/17/2016 08:12 AM, Jens Jørgen Mortensen via gpaw-users wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Here is a very short summary of some of the discussions we had last week:

One more thing:

We also decided to allow developers to push branches directly to the 
main repository (gitlab.com/gpaw/gpaw.git) in order to make 
collaboration easier.

Jens Jørgen

> It was decided to only have one mail list for GPAW (and only one for 
> ASE).  So, we'll disable the gpaw-developers and ase-developers ML's.
>
> We will be supporting Python 2.6 for still some time because it's 
> still used in some places.  It turned out that among the people 
> present, only DTU-people are still using Python 2.6 on their 
> supercomputers - very embarrassing!
>
> We want to switch from GPAW's own vdW-DF implementation to an external 
> dependency (libvdwxc), but only after we have figured out why the 
> numbers differ.  Mikael, Ask and Johannes will look into this.
>
> The PAW-correction to vdW-DF is not ready yet.  The suggested solution 
> is to generate new PAW datasets that have more electrons in the 
> pseudo-core density (similar to how PP's use a non-linear core 
> correction).  Someone should document this ...
>
> The new "augment_grids" keyword should be changed to a better name (I 
> don't remember what we decided on).  The default value will be True if 
> there are enough grid-points per CPU for this to be efficient.
>
> We discussed how to help people who are forced to do their 
> GPAW-development work on a MAC.  But no one wanted to document how 
> they installed GPAW, so we are stuck with our broken documentation.
>
> A small test among the people present showed that everyone had 
> setuptools installed.  So, we might want to base our setup.py on this 
> some time in the future (setuptools = modern distutils).
>
> And finally: Thanks Lauri for arranging such a nice meeting!
>
> Jens Jørgen
>
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