2021 03 01 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • Minimal Python version required: hike to 3.7 or 3.8 (see #1932)?
   • Resolve PR dependencies
   • What is the meaning of "make all".
   • Removing large binary blobs from repository

Mailing list

• https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

1. Models / NESTML
   • singularities issue between Doc and Model teams
   • preparing sprint for hackathon for NESTML 4.0
2. PyNEST
   • request input from other teams on #1821
     • behaviour is as expected, may need to update error message to be more understandable.
3. Kernel
   • nothing to report
4. Installation
   • discussed different "all" "nodoc" etc. make targets, proposal: change to cmake configurations
5. Infrastructure
   • created environment files for everything in one file.
6. Documentation
   • IDE instructions and MacOS install instructions being written
   • extraction of Microcircuit, postponed discussion
   • worked on documentation style guide
7. EBRAINS & StackOverflow
   • nothing major to report
8. (Feature) Random number generation
   • checking/validating with real-world models
   • PR #1549 review is progressing
9. (Feature) Automated Testing
   • nothing to report
10. (Feature) Extension Module System
    • joining NESTML hackaton to get things done.

In-depth discussion

Minimal Python version required: hike to 3.7 or 3.8 (see #1932)?

Discussed minimally required Python version. Especially for new Python constructs the version requirement would need to be >=3.7.

• DECISION: minimum requirement 3.8*

Resolve PR dependencies

• PR dependencies seem to block merging for several PRs
• closed abandoned/resolved PRs
• discussed blocks from reviewer side
• dependencies in documentation generation for different target formats #1899
  • HTML output (parsed RST)
  • API help (unparsed RST? Markdown?)
  • …

What is the meaning of "make all"

discussion postponed

Removing large binary blobs from repository

discussion postponed