2021-01-04 Core Developers Meeting notes

Date

Jan 4, 2021

Participants

  • @Jeffrey Wagner

  • @Simon Boothroyd

  • @David Dotson

  • @Pavan Behara

  • @Matt Thompson

Discussion topics

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Updates

  • SB

    • Worked on RDKit ELF conformer selection. Some issue with OpenEye’s handling of carboxylic acids (it seems to do the reverse)

    • Opened a PR a while ago on something like a CFEP-like system for standards documents and amendments. Working on a template for that.

    • Thinking about useful tools for FF striketeam

  • MT

    • Issue trackers was mostly quiet over the holidays. No breaking upstream changes

    • Opened a PR to make changes to test suite

    • Worked a lot on unit models – Largely based on discussions with SB. Deserialization is tricky.

    • System work is going well – Have one significant blockers with torsion energies – Would like to chat with another developer about this.

    • CF migration has gone well – no red flags there.

    • Did some maintenance work for forcebalance CI. Mostly regarding migration to GHA CI.

  • DD

    • Worked over break with Bill Swope to refine benchmarking instructions/infrastructure.

    • Several small benchmarking CLI to-dos

    • Need to compile submissions for public datasets. Gary Tresadern has organized and sent me all datasets, I need to prepare them in QCA dataset submission PRs.

  • JW

    • 0.8.2 release

    • Mostly benchmarking work other than that

    • Ordering of priorities for coming week:

      • PR reviews

      • conda-forge migration planning

      • Benchmarking to-dos

  • PB

    • Working on torsion interpolation, some issues with starting parameters. SB suggested I start with 1.2.1.

    • Also some technical issues with ForceBalance workers on UCI cluster. TG has been a big help in getting this set up/debugged.

Sprint planning

Return at 25 minutes past the hour for sprint planning