# October 15th, bi-weekly GROMACS developer meeting

**URL:** <https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/october-15th-bi-weekly-gromacs-developer-meeting/12684>\
**Category:** Developers discussions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/october-15th-bi-weekly-gromacs-developer-meeting/12684 "2025-10-01T08:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/october-15th-bi-weekly-gromacs-developer-meeting/12684/1 "2025-10-01T08:30:25Z")

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Dear all,

Next GROMACS developer meeting will be 2025-10-15T15:00:00Z on zoom. Everybody is welcome.

If there are any specific topics you wish to discuss, just add to the agenda by editing this post or answer it **Monday before the call**. A defined agenda help that interested people will join the call.

Agenda:

- decision/policy regarding what is considered experimental feature see [document a policy for "experimental" features (#5248) · Issues · GROMACS / GROMACS · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/issues/5248)

- \<_very brief description of the topic, and link to information on the ideas or to the issue_\> \< _who you are_\>

- Open questions

We usually reserve in total 20 min for each discussion topic and suggest max 10 min to present the problem followed by discussion.

Note: To be able to post or edit wiki post in the developers category, you need to member of the forum and send a request to join the GROMACS developers group using the [following link](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/g/gmx_developers)

See you  
Alessandra

**When** see [google GROMACS calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGZkc2RvcmJvbmdqMXNwMGF0OTdjaHRlYjdfMjAyNTA3MjNUMTUwMDAwWiBpazJ1ZW12cmd2c3YyZ20zYXBsbGZlOWprb0Bn&tmsrc=ik2uemvrgvsv2gm3apllfe9jko%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL)

**Where** : [Join our Zoom Meeting (magic link)](https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69277089234?pwd=V2MwM0JJaGJOK3dDUWlhcWx6YUM5QT09)

Meeting ID: 692 7708 9234  
Password: gmxdevs

Join by SIP:  
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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/october-15th-bi-weekly-gromacs-developer-meeting/12684/2 "2025-10-14T06:43:26Z")

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A kind remind. Next GROMACS biweekly developer meeting will be 2025-10-15T15:00:00Z on zoom. Everybody is welcome.

Agenda:

- decision/policy regarding what is considered experimental feature see [document a policy for “experimental” features (#5248) · Issues · GROMACS / GROMACS · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/issues/5248)
- Open questions

See you  
Alessandra

**When** see [google GROMACS calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGZkc2RvcmJvbmdqMXNwMGF0OTdjaHRlYjdfMjAyNTA3MjNUMTUwMDAwWiBpazJ1ZW12cmd2c3YyZ20zYXBsbGZlOWprb0Bn&tmsrc=ik2uemvrgvsv2gm3apllfe9jko%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL)

**Where** : [Join our Zoom Meeting (magic link)](https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69277089234?pwd=V2MwM0JJaGJOK3dDUWlhcWx6YUM5QT09)

Meeting ID: 692 7708 9234  
Password: gmxdevs

Join by SIP:  
[69277089234@zoom.nordu.net](mailto:69277089234@zoom.nordu.net)

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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/october-15th-bi-weekly-gromacs-developer-meeting/12684/3 "2025-10-16T12:35:37Z")

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A brief summary of yesterday meeting:

- how to stabilize experimental features - in GitLab issue #5248. For a summary of discussion see [note from 15 Oct 2025](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/issues/5248#note_2823370659) on GitLab issue.
- [zccl.org](http://zccl.org/) developers shared the interests and work in compressing MPI-communication data

Next meeting: October 29th at 11:00 CET
