# AiiDA Team Meeting 2023-09-07

###### tags: `team meetings`
###### time: 10am CET

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### Present

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### Catch-up round

*Max. 3 minutes each*

Sebastiaan:
* Announced the launch of the Discourse server. We should encourage people that still use the old channels for questions/discussions to use Discourse as much as possible.
* Is anyone still interested in taking a look to migrating the old mailing list content to Discourse? Here is a link with instructions, but not sure if it still applies to current version of Discourse: https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrate-a-mailing-list-to-discourse-mbox-listserv-google-groups-etc/79773
* [`Config`: Switch from `jsonschema` to `pydantic`](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6117): This is a lead up to [Add `verdi profile setup`](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6023) that allows setting up of profiles with arbitrary storage backends. Which in turn is a lead up to the addition of the `SqliteZipArchive`, a lightweight persistent backend for demos and tutorials.
* [InteractiveOption: Fix validation being skipped if ! provided](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6033): Updated after review. Addressed all comments, including nitpicks. Ready for re-review Captain Scope Creep :D
* [Scheduler: Refactor interface to make it more generic](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6043): What is the status of the `aiida-firecrest` work. Has it been confirmed that the new interface is sufficient and can it be merged?
* [Implement support for running `CalcJobs` on windows machines](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6042): Is this still necessary? I believe it has been solved on the plugin side in combination with the PR listed above.

### Specific Agenda Items