MT – The straightforward solution is to do something like what we’d done with electrostatics. and split periodic and nonperiodic potentials.
JW – What would the vdW keywords change to?
MT – potential would stay, method would split into periodic_method and nonperiodic_method This should make us ready to switch to LJPME when the day comes.
(MT taking notes in a comment on that issue)
JW –
MT – I’m
JW – Is there a case where users will get totally stopped in trying to do something like a vacuum simulation in AMBER by specifying this?
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(General) – If that happens, there will probably be a workaround that experts would use anyway. So we should go ahead and draft
Pre-EP summary comment:
Committee composition?
DM + LW – Change rules to majority?
JW – Have reviewer “pools” - like “technical” and “scientific”, requiring approvals from both?
MT – I’d like to make sure that we have organizational capacity to get changes through to the finish line. I think it’s too easy to let things lose momentum on GitHub. I like the idea of monthly meetings, which are cancelled ahead of time if there’s no agenda.
Get all stakeholders to agree/iterate to convergence
Implement
Creates perverse/adverse incentives: Requires a huge amount of work to define the work that needs to be done.
Possible new procedure:
The infrastructure team is only involved in review, final approval, and implementation; there needs to be another driver
Driver has the right to limit scope, e.g. “This is a good thing to consider but falls outside scope of current proposal; suggester can create new proposal and be driver on that”
Relevant committee commits to meet at some predictable frequency to make synchronous decisions
Meet monthly on recurring schedule and change voting?
Or meet one-off each month?
Batching small changes so a variety go into a spec update
e.g. Q4-2023 branch which will have several different EPs merged into it that will eventually go into next point release of section spec, e.g. 0.5, when quarter’s changes wrap up.
Proposed goal: Release once a quarter, but changes are approved and can be implemented once EPs merged.
Suggested monthly meeting
Should we change committee composition and/or requirements to make a recurring meeting? Or schedule one-off each month?
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