NEST Hackathon 19.04 23.04 2021

Where: Online

When: 19.04 - 23.04.2021

Participants

• Jochen
• Jessica
• Sara
• Steffen
• Charl
• Pooja
• Guido
• Håkon
• Susanne
• Hans Ekkehard
• Stine
• Anno
• Jasper
• Sebastian
• Dennis

The plan!

• #1840 (@clinssen)
• #820 (@clinssen, @YounesBouhadjar)
• #1549 (@heplesser)
• #1986
• #1959 (@gtrensch, @Helveg)
• NEST Server documentation - Jochen, Sara
• Module system refactoring - review in joint session on Friday

Discussion points

• The terms "connection" and "synapse" are used somewhat interchangeably. It would be great to discuss making this more consistent across the code and docs.
  • Charl, Jessica, Sara, Jochen
• Names: what are extensions, components, ++. Need good names!
  • Jochen, Jessica
• How to permanently remove large binary blobs from a git repository
  • Charl
• How are secondary events registered
  • Jochen, Susi, HEP, Charl, Pooja (around 2 hours)
• NEST error messages page in documentation
  • Jochen, Jessica, Sara
• Blockvector vs namedvector
  • Jochen, Håkon
• Common access points for documentation (non-NEST)
  • HEP, Sara, Steffen
• NEST in virtual environments (pip install)
  • Charl, Jochen, Robin de Schepper, Guido
• Calibrate, what it does and what it should do
  • Charl, Pooja, Jochen

PRs merged, issues closed

For PRs merged, see here

For PRs opened, see here

For issues closed, see here