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title: 'PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 January 19 at 18:00 UT'
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# PlasmaPy Community Meeting | Tuesday 2021 January 19 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)
* [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
    * drafting [roadmap](https://hackmd.io/@plasmapy/ry0mmnj6v)
3. solicit "Project Issues"
4. dropping python 3.6 for v0.6.0 release
5. Christophe's email about Paschen to Erik & Nick
6. ...
7. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
8. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 953](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953): `ParticleTracker`
        * needs review...Nick are you claiming this review?
    2. [PR 962](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/962): Coulomb logarithm naming
    3. [PR 932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932): Dispersion
    4. [PlasmaPy-NEI 41](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-NEI/pull/41) — setting up GitHub Actions
    5. [PR 889](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/889): Swept Langmuir `find_floating_potential`
    6. [PR 979](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/979): Relativistic Boris Pusher
    7. [PR 978](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/978): nuclear cross-sections & rates
    8. [PR 977](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/977): update top-level README
    9. [PR 974](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/974): Fitting Thomson Scattering Spectra
    10. [PR 961](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/961): Update development guide
    11. [PR 951](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/951): Update quantum.py
    
## Attendees

* Nick
* Dominik
* Erik

## Action Items

***Continuation Items***
> ***Erik***
> * Review dispersion [PR 932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932)
> * Review Test 2 [PR 920](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/920)
> * Open "Project Issue" on the distribution functions
> * refine roadmap for next weeks discussion
> 
> ***Nick***
> * Review `ParticleTracker` [PR 953](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953)
> * Review [PR 962](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/953)
> * Open issues on...
>     1. Which Coulomb lagarithms should we support and how do we advertise them?
>     2. Notebook on Coulomb logarithm
> * add feedback to roadmap items "Workshop" and "Simulations"
>
> ***Dominik***
> * add feedback to roadmap items "Transport" and "Particle Tracker"

***Erik***
* add OMFIT to affiliated pkgs
* finish tests for [PR 889](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/889)
* Review Test 2 [PR 920](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/920)
* will merge [PR 932](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/932) tonight (1/19)
* take back up [PR 951](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/951): Update quantum.py ... seem to have stalled because of me

***Dominik***
* Write tests for [PR 979](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/979) - "Relativistic Boris Pusher"
* open PR to drop py36

***Nick***
* will merge [PR 962](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/962) - "Coulomb logarithm naming"
* will assign himself to [PR 978](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/978) - "nuclear cross-sections & rates"

## Minutes

* Dispersion relation work
    * PR close to merging
    * next pr: renaming
        * there are ~3 analytical solutions that are branches/roots of equation
        * Bellan (woo, I read 1/3 of his textbook once!) figured out a way to get a general non-branchy solution
    * really cool notebook that reproduces Bellan's figures!
* roadmap Transport...will try to get initial API in place by June 2021
* [PR 979](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/979): Relativistic Boris Pusher
    * add without test with major warning or write tests now
    * question arises b.c. old PR on `ParticleTracker` adds tests and that might be needed to be merged first
    * **Will write tests.**
* When testing code, we should always consider testing on examples from published works.
* Coulomb log:
    * mostly done
    * mergeable once Tiger finishes final changes?
* plasmapy-nei#42
    * Nick is also wanting to get doc tests up through GitHub actions for [xrtpy](https://github.com/HinodeXRT/xrtpy)
    * https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-NEI/pull/42
* Update README [PR 977](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/977)
    * restore codecov
    * add badge the links to affiliated pkgs
        * badge format info can be found at https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy.github.io/pull/80#issuecomment-728212513
* agreed to drop support of py36 like it's the Curiosity rover
* hold off on [PR 961](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/961) - "Update development guide" ...needs more development and time to do it
