# AiiDA Team Meeting 2025-10-16

###### tags: `team meetings`
###### time: 10:00 Zürich time (Thurdsays, every two weeks)

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### Present

* Marnik
* Xing
* Alex
* Miki
* Ali
* Davide B.
* Julian
* Giovanni

### Team compass link
https://github.com/orgs/aiidateam/projects/5

### Catch-up round

*Max. 3 minutes each*
*Please keep items separated in the two categories "Topics aligned with Team compass issues" and "Other topics" (see link above).

#### Julian
##### Topics aligned with Team compass issues
* Item 1
* Item 2
* ...
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##### Other topics
* v2.7.2 patch release: https://github.com/orgs/aiidateam/projects/24
* aiida-core days (06 and 07 Oct):
* Updates on 21 PRs and 13 issues :rocket:
* Topics: PR reviews (all), docs (Ali, Miki), ORM & pydantic (Edan), rest mention topics yourself
* Next dates: 03 and 04 Nov
* [[# 6993] 🐛 Fix PSQL OpErr on archive creation by batching](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6993) -> merged, yey!
* [[# 7063] 🐛 Apply `filter_size` batching throughout code base](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/7063) -> follow-up, fix _all_ locations for QB with large `in` filters
* [[# 7046] Additional logging during `dump` operations](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/7046) -> fixes command seemingly being stuck, interpreted as failure
* [[# 7047] Devex: Add seed based on test parameters to json contains tests](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/7047) -> discussion with Zisen. might remove from automatic benchmarks or remove from code base entirely
* Blog posts:
* Published one last Friday, Renku people, as well. Waiting for feedback from SDSC for LinkedIn announcement.
* https://aiida.net/news/posts/2025-10-10-aiida-renku-integration.html
* https://blog.renkulab.io/aiida-success-story/
* Next one on 07/11, anybody would like to take care of that?

#### xing
##### Topics aligned with Team compass issues
* [[CLI]: make top-level verdi pluginable via entry points](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/7053)

##### Other topics
* [Launch AiiDA CalcJob tasks with SLURM job dependencies](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-workgraph/discussions/708): This is an example of using `aiida-workgraph` to launch AiiDA CalcJob tasks with SLURM job dependencies.

#### Marnik

Nothing much too report on the `aiida-core` front: mostly reviewing/testing for other PRs.

#### Ali
- Investigating issue of async engine: https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/issues/7023
- Drop api-auto-docs for now https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/7056

#### Miki

Ready-to-merge [PR](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/7048) on documentation about "real-world workflows".

#### Kristjan
- AiiDA explorer by Bud: https://aiidateam.github.io/aiida-explorer
- New Materials Cloud explore that uses this: https://materialscloud-org.github.io/mc-frontend/explore/

#### Giovanni
- I need to open a PR on aiida-shell to support `monitors`
- I need to open a PR on aiida-core for portable codes. If they are in the same folder, `./` is not prepended, so even if the executable is copied from the AiiDA repo and is `chmod +x`, it will not run
- My goal was to have a simple example of using a monitor (could be a blog post?)
- my topic for the next AiiDA coding days (mostly 3rd Nov): disk-objectstore related issues (in AiiDA-core and DOS repos)

#### Alex
- Has anyone ever experienced drastic performance differences between using a terminal attached worker `verdi daemon worker` and a background worker`verdi daemon incr 1` using `core.local` and `core.direct`? It seems related to pipe redirections to the terminal (see https://dcreager.net/2009/08/06/subprocess-communicate-drawbacks)
- HackMD about airflow migration blueprint https://hackmd.io/XDwm9uKDQ2OF4bjkkmfO-Q

### Specific Agenda Items
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