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NEST Hackathon 6.12.–10.12 2021

Stine Brekke Vennemo edited this page Dec 6, 2021 · 15 revisions

This hackathon will result in the next time-based release.

Where: Gathertown

When: 06.12 - 10.12.2021

Participants

The plan!

  • Get NEST 3.2 ready
    • Go through list and sort milestone
  • review all PRs
  • NEST CI testing - Dennis, Jochen, Pooja, Stine
  • Discuss CI integration of NEST and PyNN and long-term responsibility of PyNN-NEST - Delay
  • De-couple SLI/PyNEST - Håkon, HEP, Jochen
    • Replace SLI data types with C++ types
  • Model defaults that involve time (e.g. noise generator) - Jochen, HEP, all
    • How to document
    • Initialization as time objects vs. doubles
  • documentation
    • check versions, and ensure essential updates are complete - Jessica, Steffen, Jochen, Dennis
      • virtual image - renaming of file before release?
    • update the installation instruction - Jessica, Steffen, Jochen, Dennis
      • whats happening to pip
      • add updates for docker, debian, fedora, ppa, spac?, neuro fedora?
      • conda no build for 3 problem
    • dicussion - key performance indicators (LOC, SoftWipe (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89495-8),...) - all
  • Website theme discussion - Jessica, Jochen, all who is interested
  • Discussion with Benedikt about 2nd order synapse dynamics: Monday 16:00 [CL, Jochen, Pooja]
  • Release-a-thon (NESTML 5.0-rc1, ODE-toolbox 4.4, pygsl 2.3.1) [CL]

TODO

PRs merged, issues closed

For PRs merged, see here

For PRs opened, see here

For issues closed, see here

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