Pencil Code Newsletter 2025/1

[Axel Brandenburg]

Dear all,
A new Pencil Code Newsletter is available on the link:

https://norlx65.nordita.org/~brandenb/pencil-code/newsletter/2025/1/newsletter.pdf

Contents
1 A new steering committee
2 Five years newsletter
2.1 Request for feedback
2.2 The stated goal
2.3 This newsletter
3 Correction for mass diffusion
3.1 FAG: A proposed default change
3.2 SS: An alternate implementation of mass diffusion correction for the energy equation
4 Pencil Code Philosophy
5 WD: Branches
5.1 The problem(s)
5.2 Advantages of branch-oriented development
5.3 Note
5.4 Feedback and criticism
5.5 Proposal
6 GK: Contributor guidelines and tagging
6.1 Contact information for committers
6.2 Contributor guidelines
6.3 Stable tagging
7 CCY: Any commit or merger should be rejected back to the committer if it does not pass the auto-tests
8 DC: It would be good if Pencil were to adopt PRs and branches
9 EN: Collaboration & Reproducibility
10 Individual views from PCSC members
11 New auto-test infrastructure
12 Random tips
12.1 User-specific settings
12.2 Safer snapshots
12.3 Indicator file for snapshot writing
12.4 Automatic CVS updates
12.5 Check-in notifications
13 PC User Meeting & School
14 Upcoming meetings14
15 Papers since October 2024

If you have any comments, let us know!
Cheers, Matthias & Axel