Phillip Alday

> Also my interpretation of Phil's reconstruction of the lme4 solution by putting MixedModels.jl in a straight jacket was that the lme4 solution is for various reasons, say, spurious and...

That test does occasionally fail for me, but almost never nowadays. (An earlier version of the test was a little bit too strict and failed a fair amount.) - Which...

> I need to rewrite the destructuring syntax in the old, tedious syntax if we are to continue to test on the LTS version. @dmbates add a Compat.jl dependency and...

I would prefer to keep LTS compat ... I can see how hard it would be to get BSplineKit to support 1.6 (and whether the author is amenable to that....)

@dmbates Okay, I won't be making a compat fix. The problem is a missing method `strides(::SparseMatrixCSC)`, which comes up in an ldiv operation. (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/44027 added an appropriate method). Then we'll...

I've restarted CI to see if it was a one-off. For posteriority, the test failure was: ```julia previous formula misspecification: Error During Test at /home/runner/work/MixedModels.jl/MixedModels.jl/test/misc.jl:14 Test threw exception Expression: MixedModel(#=...

@dmbates I bet this is from one of the recent changes in GLM.jl .... I have an idea how to fix and will ping you soon 🙂

@dmbates recent changes in GLM that might impact this: - better tolerance of some floating point weirdness in binomial GLMs (1.8.1, most recent) - change in definition of how some...

> Although L does get modified by updateL! I don't think we should copy that whole field, which can be very large. We just need to enforce the convention that...

> since you could argue the export list is part of each package's API A thousand times this. In fact, removing something from the export list would be a breaking...