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title: AiiDA Team Meeting 2023-09-07
tags: [team meetings]

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# AiiDA Team Meeting 2023-09-07

###### tags: `team meetings`
###### time: 2pm CET

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### Present

* Sebastiaan
* Edan
* Kristjan
* Giovanni
* Jusong
* Marnik
* Miki


### Catch-up round

*Max. 3 minutes each*

Jason:
 * Image name of newly baked docker-stack: 
     * `aiidateam/base`, `aiidateam/aiida-core` 
     * `aiidateam/aiida-base`, `aiidateam/aiida-full`
     * `aiidateam/aiida-core-base`, `aiidateam/aiida-core-services` (or `aiida-core-with-services`)?
 * There is a long stand question in mailing list about rabbitmq-server with singularity, I think the new docker stack can be a potential solution. https://groups.google.com/g/aiidausers/c/VocNFWL-pBk

Marnik:
    * Nothing to report on the `aiida-core` front.

Giovanni:
  * Edan and I are doing the interviews for SwissTwins. Hoping to get people from ~Jan-Feb.
  * Discussing with Miki on whether to work on integrating the Euphonic package in AiiDA, as it's possibly relevant with collabotors at PSI

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.

Miki
 * still working on prototype for StructureData. I will update soon the hackmd with some detail

Kristjan:
 * Finalizing the backup script PR: https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/6069
     * not clear how to test this

Edan
 * Tested monitoring feature on Aurora - all is well!

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