roadmap

Migrate to github

Because github is more familiar to developers, easier to get people to contribute

Package name

cbc.block is a bit unfortunate due to the more popular cryptography acronym CBC (Cipher Block Chaining). Still, I think it would be inconvenient to change it now. Google "cbc.block" gives unrelated answers, but "fenics block" gives cbc.block as top result.

Organization name (on github)

The old name "fenics-app" was meant to attract and collect other projects under the same umbrella. This never happened. Still, it's nice to have an official org (team) name rather than being under a personal account.

• Could use the https://github.com/simula/
• Otherwise, what should we be called? blockprec? fenics-block? block-something? Hopefully, something that can be used for other related packages as well. For example it could be
  • the upcoming cbc.blockx,
  • existing packages like fenics_ii (if they need a new home)
  • ...

Improve test coverage

• automated tests and deployment (CI/CD)
• write tests, most importantly for new code

Clean up old baggage

• remove dead (unused) code
• decide
  • python support (suggest: 3.8+)
  • mpi support (yes/no, if yes: mark unsupported parts)
  • native trilinos support (yes/no)
• maybe fix some unfortunate design errors (like allowing plain scalars as blocks, which cause unnecessary complexity)

Development process

• PR reviews
• package to pypi
• doc strings

Coming up

• fenicsx/dolfinx