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

[Matthew Turk]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> 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:
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>> https://trello.com/b/yv7o0dTp/unit-refactor
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>> Anyway, as an update, here's where we stand on unit refactor.
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>> Big blockers:
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>>  * 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:
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>> 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.
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> 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.

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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -Matt
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> Steward Observatory
> University of Arizona
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