Minutes of the 2nd Meeting of the Pencil Code Steering Committee
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Date and time: May 9th, 2017, 8 pm CEST

Participants: Axel Brandenburg, Nils Haugen, Wolfgang Dobler, Matthias Rheinhardt (minuteer)
Prior to the meeting, Anders Johansen decided to withdraw from the Pencil Code Steering Committee.

1. Due to Anders Johansen's departure from the PCSC a new member has to be elected.
   This shall happen during the next PC User Meeting in July in Newcastle.

2. Possible extensions of the group of voters were discussed.
   Proposal: out of the group of 69 committers those shall be eligible who
             have attended at least two earlier meetings and have done at least 20 commits during last 5 years.
   Decision to be made during coming PCUM, to be prepared by PCSC by considering the list of all committers
   and identifying possible problems. To be settled by e-mail before meeting.

3. The PCSC will convene via Skype during the coming PCUM.

4. ToR including recent changes shall be approved by owners at PCUM.

5. Recent code developments, Yin-Yang grid and link to CUDA kernels of Astaroth code, shall be documented in
   README and/or manual (Matthias)

6. Options for stabilizing the Nordita auto-tests were discussed:
   For the hourly test a compiler update on norlx51 should be done first (Matthias/Axel/Wolfgang). 
   For the daily test another compiler than g95 (outdated) shall be considered and it shall be set up on a
   private machine at Axel's place.
   On the longer run a new machine shall be acquired in NORDITA both for auto-tests and the CVS repo (next year).

7. For the auto-tests general initialization of floats by NaNs is desirable and shall be reconsidered for gfortran (Matthias).

8. The latency problem with the SVN bridge was discussed - seems to be both platform and user dependent.
   By June, 10th a survey including all 69 committers about 
   use of Git or SVN and major problems shall be completed. (Matthias)
   The detailed questionnaire shall be iterated with Philippe and be approved by the PCSC before emission.

9. It was agreed that the list of commmitters (Sect. 3 of ToR) is public.

10. Possible issues to be treated during the PCUM were discussed:
    - Further development of the Python suite: Axel will check with Simon and Andreas.
    - Separation of engine from toolbox: Axel touches Wlad.
    - Streamlining of the paticles module: Nils touches Dhruba. 
    - I/O via HDF5: to be posted again 
    
10c. Graeme's proposal was approved to have 
     less talks (in particular scientific), and instead more time (free afternoons) for coding work during the coming PCUM.

11. To be changed in ToR: chairperson remains in office until new one is elected, rotation is encouraged. (Matthias)
    To be added: PCSC helps in initiating PCUMs