[yt-dev] Unitrefactor to-do's

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to figure out what exactly needs to happen before
>> unitrefactor can get merged in.
>>
>> So far, I have the following:
>>
>> 1. Frontend conversions:
>>
>>     * moab
>>     * NMSU art
>>     * chombo/pluto
>>     * GDF
>>
>> 2. Validate unchanged answers relative to the current pre-unitrefactor 3.0 tip
>>
>> 3. Update MPI calls that use the buffer interface to properly handle units.
>>
>> 4. Update ProfileND classes to return data with units
>>
>> Are there any other to-do items I am missing?
>
> [I can't find the Cameron mask I had printed up at the costume store,
> so you'll just have to imagine I'm saying this as him ...]
>
> Documentation!
>
> [back to being Matt]
>
> I know you've got a nice notebook illustrating all of these changes --
> is that just about ready to put in?  If so, in the very near future
> since I think we have a quorum I'll copy the current docs into the
> 3.0/unitrefactor bookmark and merge that in, and you can put it in
> there.  I'll add documentation for how to add a new frontend.


Yes, it should be good to go more or less.  I was planning on adding
it once there were docs to add it to.

-Nathan

>
> One thing that constantly surprises me with all of this unit work is
> how much code we get to delete from the frontends.
>
> -Matt
>
>>
>> FWIW, I'm currently looking at item 2 using the new `check_results`
>> decorator Matt recently added.
>>
>> -Nathan
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