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# PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 July 27 at 18:00 UT

### Video Conference Information
* [Jitsi video conference link](https://meet.jit.si/plasmapy) with [call-in information](https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=plasmapy)
* Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://app.element.io/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) and [Gitter](https://gitter.im/PlasmaPy/Lobby)
* [GitHub Minutes Repository](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes)
* ["Community" Sub-directory](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes/_community)
* [PlasmaPy on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy) ([pull requests](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/pulls), [issues](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/issues))
* [PlasmaPy Enhancement Proposals on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-PLEPs)
* [PlasmaPy Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=bzVsb3ZkcW0zaWxsam00ZTlrMDd2cmw5bWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)

## Agenda (please feel free to edit or add items)

1. Introductions
2. 10-15 minutes for [roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/ry0mmnj6v)
3. solicit "Project Issues"
4. Updating [testing guide](https://docs.plasmapy.org/en/latest/development/testing_guide.html) in [#1163](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1163)
- How should we recommend that users test PlasmaPy from the command line?
6. Update from last week's dispersion meeting
* [minutes](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/SJOIPSD0u)
7. Review progress of `v0.7.0` milestone
8. Hack Week videos
9. ...
10. Issues
1. ...
2. ...
11. Pull requests in progress
1. [#1206](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1206): `tox` config for building docs
2. [#1173](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1173): Fix volume weighted interpolator in CArtesianGrid
12. Pull requests **MERGED**
1. [#1213](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1213): Minor changes to `plasmapy.online_help`
2. [#1210](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1210): User more generalized keyworkd argument for gyroradius
3. [#1207](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1207): Fix reST links in old changelog
4. [#1195](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1195): Add `tox` and remove `pytest` from extra requiremnts
5. [#1156](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1156): Update documentation guide

## Attendees

* Erik
* Nick
* Dominik

## Action Items

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## Minutes

* [Interactively passing positional arguments to tox](https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example/general.html#interactively-passing-positional-arguments)
* increaseing the number of parallel jobs in a matrix strategy
* [`jobs.<job_id>.strategy.max-parallel`](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idstrategymax-parallel)
* proton notebooks take a long time
* Dominik has an idea with MyST / jupyter-cache
* For how to recommend that users test
* Add sections for pytest (less resource intensive & faster & less overhead) vs tox (if you don't want to set up an environment; make env indepdentnt of runner)
* Definitely need to remove `python setup.py test`. Oh, those were the days.
* Release of `v0.7.0` & milestone
* feature freeze starts 2021-08-03
* burn down is proceeding
* Not a Los Angeles expression
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