[yt-dev] Unit refactor, Trello, SPH, etc

[Cameron Hummels]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Lately, a lot of the yt-3.0 dev has been going on in the unitrefactor
> >> domain.  Britton, John, Nathan and I (in alphabetical order :) have
> >> been pushing pretty hard on getting things in order.  I've been trying
> >> to keep things organized a bit by using Trello, which Sam showed me
> >> and was pretty cool -- I'm not sure I can give out access to writing
> >> to the boards to anybody, but I think the yt boards are all "public"
> >> readable, and you can request write privs:
> >>
> >> https://trello.com/b/yv7o0dTp/unit-refactor
> >>
> >> Anyway, as an update, here's where we stand on unit refactor.
> >>
> >> Big blockers:
> >>
> >>  * MOAB, GDF, Pluto, Chombo frontends
> >>  * A few remaining (minor) cosmology issues that Britton's just about
> >> got finished and for which I owe some unit tests
> >>  * Some discussion about metallicity units:
> >>
> >>
> https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt/pull-request/38/fixing-cgs-unit-conversions-for-angle-and
> >>  * Docs haven't been copied in yet, but John Z has updated the
> >> bootcamp to 3.0 (units) style.
> >
> >
> > Not to sound like a broken record, but have the docs covering the unit
> > refactor, SPH smoothing, and all of the other new things in unit refactor
> > been written?  Or are you just talking here about moving the yt-docs
> > repository (which only covers yt 2.x) into the yt-3.0 branch of the yt
> > repository?  I'm excited to use the new yt, but I just want to make sure
> I
> > know how and it is clear how it all works under the hood.
>
> The units docs have been written, and all of the bootcamps have been
> updated.  I have not yet written the smoothing docs.  But, the bullet
> point I meant was just about copying the docs in.
>

Great to hear it!  Is it possible to get the smoothing docs in with this PR
since this PR includes the smoothing functionality?

Good luck today!

>
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I think that's ... just about it.  At some point, maybe not
> >> *immediately*, we also want to get non-CGS units much, much easier to
> >> set as the default.
> >>
> >> So, the other thing -- we *just* landed (in unit refactor) SPH support
> >> with smoothing fields.  More on this is forthcoming, but I'm pretty
> >> pleased with where it is now, and best of all there's room for
> >> improvement and optimization.
> >>
> >> I'm going to be traveling a good amount the next couple weeks, but I
> >> hope to be able to address the remaining blockers, and then we can
> >> land the unit refactor in mainline yt-3.0 at some point after the
> >> documentation is included.
> >>
> >> We'll let that sit for a while, and then at some point the
> >> "rebranding" PR (which will be more invasive technically, but *less*
> >> invasive API-wise) can be issued, tested, and landed.  I actually
> >> think it might be reasonable to get 3.0 out ... kind of soon-ish.
> >>
> >> Anyway, if you want to test it out, grab the unitrefactor bookmark
> >> from MatthewTurk/yt ; I'll update the PR into the main yt repository
> >> as soon as these next couple PRs pass into my repo.
> >>
> >> -Matt
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> > --
> > Cameron Hummels
> > Postdoctoral Researcher
> > Steward Observatory
> > University of Arizona
> > http://chummels.org
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Cameron Hummels
Postdoctoral Researcher
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
http://chummels.org
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