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New CHIMERA frontend: call for reviewers
by Clément Robert May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022

Hi team ! Ronan Hix has successfully developed a new frontend for CHIMERA over the course of several months. A substantial amont of work went into it and it’s a very impressive first contribution. It’s also a significant undertaking to review, but it’d be really nice to get eyes on it so we can get it in. Here’s the pull request https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/3638 Any help would be appreciated, feel free to also submit partial reviews if you’d like to Take care Clément

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New plot axis swapping API
by Clément Robert April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022

Hi yt team ! Chris implemented a long requested API for swapping/flipping plot axis in https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/3640 I wanted to bring your attention to it because the patch, while moderately substantial, is likely intimidating to reviewers. I just gave my own approval after months of back and forth with Chris, and I believe the implementation is now robust enough for inclusion. I believe the API is mostly uncontroversial, _except_ for one aspect that we want to resolve before … [View More]

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JOB: yt development at University of Illinois
by Matthew Turk April 21, 2022

April 21, 2022

Hi folks! https://jobs.illinois.edu/academic-job-board/job-details?jobID=162846 I'm writing to share with you a job posting to work at the University of Illinois in the School of Information Sciences developing yt and working on community-centric issues. In practice, this would mean working on things related to getting yt and dask to play more nicely together (which Chris Havlin is also working on), working on bridging yt with other domains of study beyond astronomy, trying to make yt easier … [View More]

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yt 4.0.3 is released !
by Clément Robert April 17, 2022

April 17, 2022

Announcing yt 4.0.3 ! This is a bugfix release, all users are recommended to upgrade. It includes a critical bugfix for particle data analysis, as well as a ~20 bug fixes, most notably for 2D plotting and loading RAMSES data. It is available on PyPI as well as conda-forge. See the Github release notes for more: https://github.com/yt-project/yt/releases/tag/yt-4.0.3 Clément for the yt dev team

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headsup: new dependencies
by Clément Robert March 3, 2022

March 3, 2022

Hi yt-dev Headsup: In order to facilitate downstream packaging, we’re dropping the unmaintained `toml` library as a dependency and switching to tomli + tomli_w instead See https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/3830 for context and https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/3831 for the change. This may break your dev env if you don’t have these packages installed already, so beware that you may need to fix that soon when you pull from yt’s main branch. Cheers Clément

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A great way to make yt better
by Stephanie Tonnesen Feb. 14, 2022

Feb. 14, 2022

Hi yt-dev, yt is working with NumFOCUS <http://numfocus.org> on a research project <https://numfocus.org/diversity-inclusion-disc/a-pivotal-time-in-numfocuss-p…> funded by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation <https://www.moore.org/> to understand the barriers to participation that contributors, particularly those from historically underrepresented groups, face in the open-source software community. The research team would like to talk to new contributors, project … [View More]

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office hours this Friday
by Matthew Turk Jan. 27, 2022

Jan. 27, 2022

Hi all, On Friday I'll be holding "yt office hours" at 9:30AM Central (10:30AM Eastern, 3:30PM GMT). I'll announce the URL on Slack in #general just beforehand, but the stream will *probably* be at twitch.tv/powersoffour . If you have questions about yt, or want to get your feet wet developing or see how code review and whatnot happens, please stop on by! -Matt

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Org-level projects
by Matthew Turk Jan. 11, 2022

Jan. 11, 2022

Hi folks, I've started using org-level projects to collect and organize work. The first one I started up was for stretched grids: https://github.com/orgs/yt-project/projects/2 Please feel free to add items, play with this functionality, and so on. One neat thing about it is that we can link issues across repositories here. -Matt

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Steering Committee Update: Project Coordination
by Matthew Turk Dec. 15, 2021

Dec. 15, 2021

Hi all, The steering committee has discussed the current state of yt, where things are and where they are going, and talked through various strategies for moving forward effectively. Where we're at right now is that many of the maintainers have been timesliced quite a bit; this often results in bursts of activity, which is then not followed up, and a long delay between (for instance) pull requests being issued, being looked at, and issues being responded to. Additionally, the thing that … [View More]seems *really* lacking, which needs to be addressed, is that the decision making process for the community isn't entirely obvious -- not so much in terms of the rules, but of what is being worked on, who's working on things, and how to engage. I've been somewhat less engaged with the project than I'd like lately, and part of that has been situational (teaching, family, pandemic overhead) and some of it has been that I've been trying to engage at the project level without stepping on any toes *and* to try to contribute code. The upshot was that neither was really happening! So, after discussion with the steering committee, we've decided that the best way forward for now is for me to step into a "project manager" role. What this means is that I'll be taking on a much more active daily role in yt. This will include being the first point of contact for new issues and pull requests, being more assertive about "assigning" issues to individuals (with the knowledge that they may decline!), applying labels, editing issues for clarity and so on, and also stewarding and managing the review process. This also means that I'll be more engaged in public planning of projects and utilizing the project management systems provided by Github. We've long thought these were worth using, but where we ended up was that in the absence of a consensus (or a lazy consensus) we tended not to utilize new things for fear that they would go unused or that others would not approve, or whatever. Additionally, we have in place a structure for governance. But, this structure isn't self-enforcing, and it will be in this role that I will work to ensure we're following the guidelines, processes and structures we have enumerated in our governance documents. Finally, I'll be taking on the problem of holding and running "meetings" and drop-in office hours. I have also been thinking about ways of providing weekly updates on activity in the project for folks who may have unsubscribed from the repo or who find the overall communication volume to be not-quite-right. But, all of this text aside, the proof will be in the actual *doing* of things, and I look forward to *doing* things and being more vocal about it. -Matt [View Less]

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Update on yt 4.0.2: planning for what's next ?
by Clément Robert Dec. 15, 2021

Dec. 15, 2021

Hi all, The 4.0.2 milestone is currently complete !https://github.com/yt-project/yt/milestone/18 I’ve switched to using the "backport-yt-4.0.x” label in PRs that are non-blocking, but could be included in the release if we’re able to merge them in time. I believe that our attempt at automating backports with MeeseekBox was a success, and it helped a lot in producing what I think is going to be the biggest bugfix release in yt’s (recent ?) history. Because this tool is most useful and … [View More]

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