Fande, This is a great question. I am forwarding it to Mike Heroux who has a high level position in the ECP; because I have similar concerns and also don't have a good answer. ParMetis does indeed have a poor license and essentially no support. Perhaps Mike has some ideas.
Barry On Jun 1, 2018, at 5:46 PM, Kong, Fande <fande.k...@inl.gov> wrote: Hi Developers, I have introduced MatPartitioning interface to MOOSE. It is working great, and we can use all external partitioning packages via a simple interface. But here is a concern. Almost all the packages are not under development any more. Does this make a bug fix more difficult in the future. Also some of them have bad licenses. I was wondering there is any other partitioning package in the community? Thanks, Fande,