2025-06-18 Thompson/Wagner Check-in meeting notes

2025-06-18 Thompson/Wagner Check-in meeting notes

Participants

  • @Matt Thompson

  • @Jeffrey Wagner

Discussion topics

Notes

Notes

MT

  • Extend vacation by 2 days? (add July 2 and 3)

    • JW – Approved

JW

  • Bespokefit deployment CI failed because the fetch-tags keyword in the actions/checkout action is a liar and didn’t actually fetch the most recent tag. If other deployment CI starts failing this is almost certainly the cause.

    • MT – We don’t actually use fetch-tags and this rabbit hole likely goes deeper. This does coincide with a new release of git itself, but the git mailing lost doesn’t show any smoking guns or similar bug reports.

    • (general) – We don’t know why this broke or why JW’s changes fixed it. We’ll leave this be unless it pops up again.

  • Thanks for the masterful issue discussion and technical leadership while I was out (I mean, not just then, also while I’m around, but in particular while I was out)

  • Charger arrived?

    • MT – Yup!

  • To benchmark our protein FF using OpenFE, we’ll need to get SMIRNOFF proteins running in their infrastructure. This will likely have two stages

    • An initial protocol in pontibus (It’s not just for SFEs, it’s for everything experimental)

    • A full systemgenerator replacement

      • I think this will not be much coding work, but will require a lot of speccing since OpenFE wants to put it in their core code once and have the interface/behavior be basically final.

      • I’m currently on the hook to find a time to start scoping this with Irfan, I may loop you in if timing permits.

    • MT – For the systemgenerator replacement, will there be a “if everything is SMIRNOFF then use the OpenFF Toolkit/Interchange for everything” condition or flag here?



Action items

Decisions