Re: [petsc-dev] PETSc janitorial work

2022-08-23 Thread Barry Smith
> On Aug 23, 2022, at 11:16 AM, Blaise Bourdin wrote: > > What should be the proper format? Online or in person over a couple of days? > Matt and I are about 1h away from each others. > > The problem with research and cleaning projects is that we always focus on > the fun part (research) and

Re: [petsc-dev] PETSc janitorial work

2022-08-23 Thread Blaise Bourdin
What should be the proper format? Online or in person over a couple of days? Matt and I are about 1h away from each others. The problem with research and cleaning projects is that we always focus on the fun part (research) and neglect cleaning.. I would personally rank extending the

Re: [petsc-dev] PETSc janitorial work

2022-08-23 Thread Barry Smith
I would prefer the term "housekeeping" or some other phrase rather than janitorial. I think this is a great idea. One of the reasons I like to do housekeeping and keeping up with other people's housekeeping is that you can see what is repetitive and could be automated and simplified

Re: [petsc-dev] PETSc janitorial work

2022-08-23 Thread Nathan Collier
I would also participate. In general I would be happy to work more in PETSc--just need some more concrete direction in what would be useful. Nate On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:45 AM Matthew Knepley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:37 AM Blaise Bourdin > wrote: > >> All, >> >> I think that there

Re: [petsc-dev] PETSc janitorial work

2022-08-23 Thread Matthew Knepley
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:37 AM Blaise Bourdin wrote: > All, > > I think that there is quite a bit of low-skills / time consuming work > which is a poor use of the main developers’ time: syncing C / Fortran / > python headers, improving the tests coverage, proofreading the manual and > man pages,

[petsc-dev] PETSc janitorial work

2022-08-23 Thread Blaise Bourdin
All, I think that there is quite a bit of low-skills / time consuming work which is a poor use of the main developers’ time: syncing C / Fortran / python headers, improving the tests coverage, proofreading the manual and man pages, etc. I’d be more than happy to help organizing a virtual or in-