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Trilinos Roles

  • Technical Steering Committee is comprised of the Organizational and Strategic Leadership.
    • Organizational Leadership is comprised of Trilinos Product Owner, DevOps Lead, Core Area Lead, Solvers Area Lead, and Discretization and Analysis Area Lead.
    • Strategic Leadership is comprised of Trilinos developers who have extensive experience with Trilinos and knowledge of research directions of interest to both developers and stakeholders.
  • Package Owners are Team Maintainers of individual Trilinos packages.
  • Package Developers are Team Members of individual Trilinos packages and are regular contributors to their package.
  • Collaborators are irregular contributors to Trilinos packages.

Technical Steering Committee

Role

  • Determine project wide rules
  • Decide on package inclusion
  • Form short-term committees to address focused tasks

Operational Leadership

Role

Operational Leadership will maintain day-to-day operations, interaction with stakeholders, and plan Trilinos development over the next two years. Responsibilities include but limited to

  • Maintain DevOps Pipeline (CI/CD; hardware)
  • Coordinate package development with stakeholder requests
  • Promote software quality and security
  • Encourage package development through the Trilinos lifecycle to improve production readiness and credibility
  • Control who has merge privileges
  • Support Trilinos community
    • Website, wikis, annual meetings, tutorials, etc.

Current Roster

  • Curtis Ober (Trilinos Product Owner) -- GitHub handle: ccober6
  • Sam Browne (DevOps Lead) -- GitHub handle: sebrowne
  • Roger Pawlowski (Core Area Lead) -- GitHub handle: rppawlo
  • Christian Glusa (Solvers Area Lead) -- GitHub handle: cgcgcg
  • Mauro Perego (Discretization and Analysis Area Lead) -- GitHub handle: mperego

Strategic Leadership

Role

The Strategic Leadership will primarily be defining and developing Trilinos strategic research directions to support future application needs over the next five years. Responsibilities include but not limited to

  • Be aware of cutting-edge technology on the 5-year horizon
  • Be aware of strategic gaps in Trilinos
  • Maintain list of strategic priorities (~5)
  • Interface with external teams (e.g., PETSc)
  • Be Trilinos champions at SC, vendors, labs, application teams, and other frameworks
  • Prep/Train developers on latest technologies

Current Roster

  • Mike Heroux -- GitHub handle: maherou
  • Eric Phipps -- GitHub handle: etphipp
  • Siva Rajamanickam -- GitHub handle: srajama1
  • Heidi Thornquist -- GitHub handle: hkthorn
  • Jim Willenbring -- GitHub handle: jwillenbring
  • Michael Wolf -- Github handle: mmwolf

Trilinos Product Owner

Role

The Trilinos Product Owner serves as a single point of contact for Trilinos stakeholders. The Product Owner provides an important role that crosscuts the package areas and facilitates a more coordinated effort to user support for our customers. Responsibilities include:

  • Serve as single point of contact and customer liaison for stakeholders.
    • Improve communication with stakeholders and identify key issues.
    • Help gather and prioritize requirements from stakeholders.
    • Communicate these to the Area Leads
  • Product Owner will coordinate these interactions as a whole for the Trilinos project.
  • Improve and coordinate Strategic Planning
    • Help develop plans/directions for Trilinos software product.
    • Help develop prioritized list of stakeholder requests.
    • Assist management in prioritizing internal funding decisions.
    • Monitor and track key stakeholder issues.
    • Work with Area Leads to chart new directions for Trilinos.
  • Stakeholders can and should still engage Area Leads individually. However if a request/issue requires significant effort, the Product Owner should be included in the discussion.
  • Work with DevOps Lead to develop and improve Trilinos infrastructure
    • Improve configuration, build and running with Trilinos.
    • Improve deployment and testing (e.g., incorporating stakeholder requirements)
    • Manage cross-Area changes to Trilinos that effect multiple packages (e.g., removal of UVM and Epetra)
  • Serve in the Operational Leadership and TSC.

Current Roster

  • Curtis Ober -- GitHub handle: ccober6

DevOps Lead

Role

Lead Trilinos DevOps team in daily operational duties and developing strategic direction for infrastructure-related topics. Responsibilities include:

  • Provides streamlined processes and set of tools for development of Trilinos packages
    • Implements various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
    • Defines and sets development, test, release, update, and support processes
  • Organizes and maintains Trilinos release process
  • Leads DevOps team in performing associated tasks
  • Serves in the Operational Leadership and TSC.

Current Roster

Trilinos Core Area Lead

Role

Lead development of Trilinos Core packages that provide many basic capabilities to other Trilinos packages and stakeholders. Responsibilities include:

  • Supports and provides guidance to Trilinos Core packages on development
  • Coordinates with stakeholders about Core requirements
  • Facilitates Core specific requests and inter-package interactions
  • Serve in the Operational Leadership and TSC.

Current Roster

  • Roger Pawlowski -- GitHub handle: rppawlo

Solvers Area Lead

Role

Lead Solvers Area to provide a wide-variety of solution methods for linear and nonlinear systems. Responsibilities include:

  • Covers packages for linear (direct & iterative) and nonlinear solvers
  • Coordinates with stakeholders about solver requirements
  • Facilitates solver specific requests and inter-package interactions
  • Serve in the Operational Leadership and TSC.

Current Roster

  • Christian Glusa -- GitHub handle: cgcgcg

Discretization and Analysis Area Lead

Role

Lead the Discretizations and Analysis Area to provide modular, interoperable and extensible tools for the discretization of integral and differential equations and top level algorithms (outermost loops) in a computational simulation or design study (e.g., time integration, bifurcation tracking, parameter continuation, optimization, and uncertainty quantification). Responsibilities include:

  • Covers packages for Discretization and Analysis Area
  • Coordinates with stakeholders about package requirements in this Area
  • Facilitates package specific requests and inter-package interactions
  • Serve in the Operational Leadership and TSC.

Current Roster

  • Mauro Perego -- GitHub handle: mperego

Package Owners

Role

Package Owners are Package Developers (Team Maintainers) of individual Trilinos packages, and have the following responsibilities

  • Lead package research and development
  • Coordinate development with other packages to promote interoperability between packages
  • Determine the Team Members of their respective package

Package Developers

Role

Package Developers are Team Members of individual Trilinos packages and are regular contributors to their package. Their responsibilities include

  • Develop code
  • Review Pull Requests
  • Provide and maintain documentation
  • Adhere to software quality practices

Collaborators

Role

Collaborators are irregular contributors to Trilinos packages. Their responsibilities include

  • Provide documentation for contributions
  • Adhere to software quality practices