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title: 'PlasmaPy community meeting agenda and minutes - Tuesday 2020 December 08 at 18:00 UT'
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# PlasmaPy community meeting agenda and minutes - Tuesday 2020 December 08 at 18:00 UT

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### 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)
* [PlasmaPy google directory](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByPG8nie6fTPMEIxTlZLZjdjYms?usp=sharing) ([minutes/agendas](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByPG8nie6fTPV1FQUEkzMTgtRTg?usp=sharing), [documents](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByPG8nie6fTPYzk2TEhTa1N6R0U?usp=sharing))
* [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 for roadmap discussion
3. ***Dominik*** release of v0.5.0
    * stuck on PR reviews...
4. Is `z_mean` a `Particle` attribute or a `Plasma`/`ParticleCollection` attribute?
5. ...
6. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
7. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR #909](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909): Fields and Grids
    2. [PR #953](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953): ParticleTracker improvements
    3. [PR #957](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/957): Patch for `Alfven_speed` & `mass_density`
    4. website [PR #80](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy.github.io/pull/80): Affiliated Packages
    
## Attendees

* Dominik
* Erik
* Ramiz

## Action Items

***Nick***
* Post about Hack Week to try to get volunteers
* Reach out to Jimmy Juno and others about Simulation Working Group

***Erik***
* then complete next review on PR 932
* **put Transport on roadmap**

***Dominik***
* open Discourse thread on neoclassical transport to seek suggestions etc
* **will release v0.5.0 by December 9th (& will record the process to post to YouTube)**
* Add a manual GitHub Action that builds and deploys PlasmaPy.org

## Minutes

* **ROADMAP**
    * no one has brain power for this today
* plasmapy.github.io still uses travis 
* GitHub discussions are out now!
* website [PR #80](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy.github.io/pull/80): Affiliated Packages
    * ready to merge based on Approved review
    * each new Affiliated Package will get their own PR so the submitter can review the entry
* [Dominik] is going to ignore ionization state PR for now and release PlasmaPy 0.5.0 tomorrow, so we don't delay the newsletter for it; PR review comes right after
* [PR 909](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909) was simplified to just Grids (no longer includes Fields)
    * **now now doctor, now is not the time for fields. that comes later**
    * `xarray` implementation?
* Is `z_mean` a `Particle` attribute or a `Plasma`/`ParticleCollection` attribute?
    * [Dominik] agrees `z_mean` belongs more to `Plasma`, not `Particle`
* [PR #957](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/957): Patch for `Alfven_speed` & `mass_density`
    * good to merge based on review approval
* `black` results sometimes give different results based on pre-commit and local executions, this is because the pre-commit `black` version is fixed at `19.10b0` and local builds usually use the latest version
    * Which version should we use?
    * [Erik] I don't care which version, I'm just noting that the different versions is what is causing the different results
* For PlasmaPy.org repo, it would be nice to have a manual GitHub Action that will build & deploy the website
