| [stem-dev] STEM Community Call Notes 5/19/11 |
STEM Community Call May 19, 2011 On the call: Jamie, Matthias, Stefan, Matt, Christ, Werner, Judy Topics of the Week Agreements/Committers (Added topic) · Jamie: If 200+ lines of code by a non-committer, Eclipse lawyers review CQ to · Matthias: Wants to include in new contract for 3rd party programming · Jamie: Ok if done by Bfr, Bfr owns and submits to Eclipse; okay for Markus if authored 100% and used no library incompatible with the Eclipse Public License Update on SVN Changes · Matt: Still waiting for more comments, will update document and put forth for discussion HTML Logger · Matthias: On newsgroup, great work; noted some discrepancies, e.g., SI infector and Dublin core—parameters are correct, descriptions differ; have to type name in manually, creates possibility of errors · Discussion o Jamie: Problem w/ size. Putting in all nodes, edges into log file would take too long, compromise usability o Matthias: Could _javascript_ circumvent so have all data will be attached to program even 10 years out, can drill down? o Matthias: Would be helpful to have documentation of one’s own model with all values, etc. in one place · Resolution: Make a logging option · Jamie: Will implement as a feature w/ a warning re file size, send to Matthias for feedback · Matthias: Will test · Added to do: Jamie will redo Cuba (old) · Added discussion o Jamie: What about equations? How generate automatically? o Matthias: Transparency important, could create a graphical model generator, maybe can fund o Jamie: Will help Matthias w/ proposal Bfr Talk on STEM · Matthias: Will do demo @ end of June Items from Participants · Chris: Working on population model that allows people to age; will have sometime next week · Werner: Discussion delayed; will reschedule · Matthias: Re mosquito model—could look @ canonical graph but lost population; no canonical model visualization tool; Jamie—can see decorator graph if using a disease model; Stefan—can see in middle of a run. o Matthias: Ideally would have a feature whereby the documentation is automatically generated by the model itself |