Enhancement ghost query functions

.github/workflows/add_release_documentation.yml

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ jobs:
         ./generate_redirections.sh $GITHUB_REF_NAME
     - name: Create Pull Request at DLR-AMR/t8code-website
       if: ${{ env.MINOR_RELEASE == 'true' }}
-      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6
+      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
       with:
         path: t8code-website
         title: Add documentation for t8code ${{ github.ref_name }}

.github/workflows/build_cmake_tarball.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+name: CMake Tarball
+
+#  This file is part of t8code.
+#  t8code is a C library to manage a collection (a forest) of multiple
+#  connected adaptive space-trees of general element types in parallel.
+#
+#  Copyright (C) 2024 the developers
+#
+#  t8code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  t8code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with t8code; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+#  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+#
+# This github CI script constructs a tarball and checks if it is build correctly.
+#
+
+env:
+  MAKEFLAGS: "-j2 V=0"
+
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - develop
+      - CI-*tarball* # for testing this script, all feature branches with "tarball" in their name
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - develop
+  workflow_dispatch: 
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    if: (github.event_name == 'schedule' && github.repository == 'DLR-AMR/t8code') || (github.event_name != 'schedule')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    container: dlramr/t8code-ubuntu:t8-dependencies
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+#
+# Setup and bootstrap
+#
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        fetch-tags: true # required to get version tags
+        fetch-depth: 0    # required to get all history, especially the version tags    
+    - name: install sudo
+      run: apt update && apt install sudo
+    # On the github Ubuntu 20.04, sudo is not available by default
+    # we need it, however, to update/upgrade our packages.    
+    - name: Update packages
+      run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
+    # This step is necessary to get the newest package data
+    - name: disable ownership checks
+      run: git config --global --add safe.directory '*'
+    - name: init submodules
+      run: git submodule init
+    - name: update submodules
+      run: git submodule update
+    - name: bootstrap
+      run: ./bootstrap
+#
+#  T8CODE 
+#     with p4est and sc as internal dependencies which is needed for make dist
+#
+#
+    - name: less-test option
+      if: ${{ inputs.LESS_TESTS }}
+      run: export LESS_TEST_OPTION="-DT8CODE_ENABLE_LESS_TESTS=ON"
+          && echo LESS_TEST_OPTION="$LESS_TEST_OPTION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: build config variables
+      run: export CONFIG_OPTIONS="${LESS_TEST_OPTION} -GNinja -DT8CODE_USE_SYSTEM_SC=OFF -DT8CODE_USE_SYSTEM_P4EST=OFF -DT8CODE_BUILD_PEDANTIC=ON -DT8CODE_ENABLE_MPI=$MPI -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$BUILD_TYPE"
+        && echo CONFIG_OPTIONS="$CONFIG_OPTIONS" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: cmake
+      run: mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../ $CONFIG_OPTIONS
+    - name: OnFailUploadLog
+      if: failure()
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: config.log
+        path: build/config.log
+# Start building tarball
+    - name: Install pandoc
+      uses: nikeee/setup-pandoc@v1
+    - name: Test pandoc
+      run: pandoc --version
+# Build the tarball
+    - name: Make tarball
+      run: cd build && ninja GenerateVersionFile && ninja package_source && mkdir tarballs && mv package/*Source.tar.gz tarballs
+# Upload the tarball
+    - name: upload tarball
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: tarballs
+        path: build/tarballs
+
+  test-tarball:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    container: dlramr/t8code-ubuntu:t8-dependencies
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+    - name: install sudo
+      run: apt update && apt install sudo
+    # On the github Ubuntu 20.04, sudo is not available by default
+    # we need it, however, to update/upgrade our packages.       
+    - name: Update packages
+      run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
+    # This step is necessary to get the newest package data
+    - name: Download tarball
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+      with:
+          name: tarballs
+          path: tarballs
+    - name: Extract tarball
+      run: tar xzf tarballs/*.tar.gz -C $RUNNER_TEMP
+    - name: update Github_env
+      run: export TAR_DIR="$RUNNER_TEMP/`basename tarballs/*.tar.gz .tar.gz`" &&
+          echo TAR_DIR="$TAR_DIR" >>$GITHUB_ENV
+
+# build config vars
+    - name: less-test-option
+      if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+      run: export LESS_TEST_OPTION="-DT8CODE_ENABLE_LESS_TESTS=ON"
+           && echo LESS_TEST_OPTION="$LESS_TEST_OPTION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: build config variables
+      run: export CONFIG_OPTIONS="${LESS_TEST_OPTION} -GNinja -DT8CODE_USE_SYSTEM_SC=OFF -DT8CODE_USE_SYSTEM_P4EST=OFF -DT8CODE_BUILD_PEDANTIC=ON -DT8CODE_ENABLE_MPI=$MPI -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$BUILD_TYPE"
+        && echo CONFIG_OPTIONS="$CONFIG_OPTIONS" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+    - name: Check vars
+      run: echo "[$CONFIG_DEBUG]"
+    - name: configure from Tarball
+      run: mkdir build_tar && cd build_tar && cmake $TAR_DIR $CONFIG_OPTIONS
+    - name: OnFailUploadLog
+      if: failure()
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: build_tar.log
+        path: build_tar/config.log
+    - name: build
+      run: cd build_tar && ninja
+    - name: install
+      run: cd build_tar && ninja install 
+    - name: check serial
+      run: cd build_tar && ctest -R _serial
+    - name: check parallel
+      run: cd build_tar && ctest -R _parallel
+    - name: OnFailUploadLog
+      if: failure()
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+      with:
+        name: build_tar.log
+        path: build_tar/test-suite.log
+
+

.github/workflows/mattermost_issue.yml

@@ -44,20 +44,26 @@ jobs:
       - name: debug_before_build
         run: echo ${{ env.message_build}}
       # build the message depending on different types of events and event actions. Message is written into mattermost.json
+      - name: dispatch_run
+        if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+        run: |
+          echo message_build=1 >> $GITHUB_ENV &&
+          echo message_content='User ${{github.actor}} triggered the workflow_dispatch' >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: closed_message
         if: github.event.action == 'closed'
         run: |
           echo message_build=1 >> $GITHUB_ENV &&
-          echo message_content='Issue ${{ github.event.issue.number }} has been closed. See ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }} for more details.' >> $GITHUB_ENV
-# Would like to have this message read "User X closed issue ...".
-# How can we get the user name? Tried ${{ github.event.issue.user.name }} and others, did not work.
+          echo message_content='User ${{ github.actor }} closed issue ${{ github.event.issue.number }}. See ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }} for more details.' >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: opened_message
-        if: github.event.action == 'opened' || github.event.action == 'reopened'
+        if: github.event.action == 'opened'
+        run: |
+          echo message_build=1 >> $GITHUB_ENV &&
+          echo message_content='User ${{ github.actor }} opened issue ${{ github.event.issue.number }}. See ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }} for more details.' >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: reopened_message
+        if: github.event.action == 'reopened'
         run: |
           echo message_build=1 >> $GITHUB_ENV &&
-          echo message_content='Issue ${{ github.event.issue.number }} was (re-)opened. See ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }} for more details.' >> $GITHUB_ENV
-# Would like to have this message read "User X (re-)opened issue ...".
-# How can we get the user name? Tried ${{ github.event.issue.user.name }} and others, did not work.
+          echo message_content='User ${{ github.actor }} reopened issue ${{ github.event.issue.number }}. See ${{ github.event.issue.html_url }} for more details.' >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: debug_after_build
         run: echo ${{ env.message_build }}
       # if a message has been written send the message to the mattermost-channel described in the secrets