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Welcome to the Developer-Guide wiki!

Draft outline of Developer wiki

Github markdown doesn't provide anyway of generating TOC's on individual pages. There is a browser add-on solution that works pretty well on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari: https://github.com/arthurhammer/github-toc.

Introduction

• Introduction to Xpetra [LB]

  • Find a jupyter notebook for Xpetra related training here

• First steps in MueLu [TAW]

  • Link to jupyter notebooks

• MueMex: The Matlab Interface to MueLu [CMS; Completed]

Developer environment

• Using git [JHU]

• building

  • SEMS modules
  • required TPLs
  • cmake configuration
  • external resources
  • how to build on HPC machines [JHU,CMS]
    • Hint: The SEMS modules will not help you.

• debugging

  • gdb
  • parallel

• Pushing code to the Trilinos repo with the checkin script [JHU]

  • basic checkin script setup
  • useful options
  • using a remote machine to do the checkin
  • what to do if an unrelated test fails

Communication [JHU]

• Mailing lists
  • dev lists
  • regression lists (including geminga)
• github issues (e.g., bug reporting)
  • teams

Testing

• how to write a unit test [CMS]
• MueLu's cdash dashboard
  • different tracks (nightly, experimental, etc.)
• how to set up nightly testing on a new machine
  • follow ASCIC machines for naming conventions (Chris will send out an email with details)