card ideas for increasing collaboration

[gonsie]

I was recently at a presentation about how an organization (a group of software projects) has made changes to increase collaboration and port to a new platform. The presenter had a really nice highlight slides of items to do, some of which could be their own PTCs.

increase collaboration:

• become 'open' source: have some way for collaborators to get read access to the code, with a way for them to contribute back (issues or PRs)
• have a release scheme
• document the build process (most people are moving to Spack for this). be willing to keep the spack package up-to-date.

porting to a new a platform:

• stand up nightly testing
• incorporate the new technology / toolchain (in this case it was Nvidia)
• create spack environments for the compilers you care about
• engage with vendors / facilities as the platform is coming online
• address differences between previous / current / next architectures
• train more developers for the new technologies / platform (GPUs)