Mesa Dev Session Notes (February 2022)

[tpike3]

Matrix discussion established and the link was added to the README (thanks @EwoutH and @rht)

Milestones for Next Dev Session (19 March)

@tpike3

• The tutorial.rst doesn't mention that the Pandas DataFrame output can be in CSV #1148
• Update docs to remove old discussion forums #1171 related to Fix link to discussions in README.rst [skip ci] #1130

@jackiekazil

• Git tags out of sync with conda and PyPi (0.8.8 and 0.8.9 missing on git) #1076

@EwoutH

• CI: Split off codespell job, don't run build on doc changes #1170
• update GitHub actions to auto tag releases #1172 (complete)

@rht
Ensure compliance with standards and best practices

Milestones on or before next release Quartzsite 1.0 (18 June)

agent activation by type @rht, @EwoutH

• feat: Implement random activation by type #1162
• PoC: Multiple-agent types scheduling and datacollection #1142

improve CI

• CI: Python 3.6 should be removed because it has reached EOL #1165
• CI: test flake: batch runner sometimes takes 6 hours then gets killed by GitHub Actions #1166
• CI: the "install dependencies" step is slow #1163
• Release and version discussion #1108

Larger initiatives:

• Google Summer of Code application submitted
• • Ideas List for Google Summer of Code #1167
• There is lots of curiosity about @jackiekazil's research on feature comparison across platforms (Mesa, MASON, Netlogo etc) and work on AWS extension
• SFI is still working on their portion to se can get a Mesa tutorial on Complexity Explorer.

[aiwhoo]

@tpike3, looking forward to the mesa tutorial.

Our team has added features and would like to integrate. Some of which include:

In the continuous space, adding

1. a customizable background image for the canvas' grid. (simple_continous_canvas.js)
2. multiple agent shapes --- (smile face, arrow, default, star, pentagon, plane, ant, fish) (simple_continous_canvas.js)
3. additional agent functions common in agent-based language (face(agent), facexy(x,y), forward(speed), backward(speed), setxy(x,y), distancexy. (agent.py)

Our goal is to remove the need for a simple_continous_canvas.js, so that everything can be controlled within python.

[jackiekazil]

what prs?

[aiwhoo]

Haven't gotten there yet! Sorry, we're really new to open source.

[jackiekazil]

no worries at all. I wanted to make sure there wasn't something i was missing.

[tpike3]

@aiwhoo That is very cool..... I have to build the discussion announcing it but could you come to our next dev session to discuss.

It will be 19 March at 0730 via TBD

Our strategic goal is the best possible ABM ecosystem. I contend no one really knows what that looks like which will require a lot of intriguing discussions. We also put a new front end as #1 on our google simmer of code idea list #1167

[jackiekazil]

Do we have some thing officially scheduled on March 19? (Wondering if there is something we can put it up to add to our calendar.)

[tpike3]

I will post it today