Monthly Math library planning meeting

We just had our first meeting online. Thanks to all that participated: @syclik, @bbbales2, @sakrejda, @roualdes, @anon79882417, @Bob_Carpenter, @seantalts, @stevebronder, @yizhang, @increasechief.

There was a log of good feedback. Here’s what we decided to do:

  1. Over the next month, put together a standard for reviewing pull requests. This discourse thread is a starting point: Standard for reviewing pull requests in the Math library
    • This will include:
      • how to review a pull request correctly
      • who should review a pull request
      • @seantalts, mind filling in whatever questions you have that I didn’t write down?
    • This will go on the Math wiki.
    • We should encourage more people to review code. We can do this by splitting apart reviewer tasks across different people since a lot of pull requests are multi-faceted.
  2. We discussed the next release of Math and Stan. We will release Math v2.18.0 and Stan v2.18.0 when CmdStan has MPI ready to go.
  3. For the 1-d integrator pull request, we need to go through and see if a decision has been made regarding Boost. If it hasn’t, we need to clearly come up with a decision. If it has, we need that to be clear.

We currently have:

  • 149 open issues
  • 12 open pull requests
    • only 7 pass tests

Some other things we need to do:

  • prioritize what we should work on for the Math library
  • we need criteria for making decisions
  • clarify decisions when they’re made

We can pick those up following the next meeting.

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