STEM Community Call September 13, 2012
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Dan, Kun, Alifya, Kamesh, Chris, Alex, Judy
1. 1.4.0 Release Plan
Stefan: Working w/ Eclipse; release on track for 9/25/2012
IP log approved yesterday; Action review and vote to take place 9/19/2012
TO DO (Matt): Break to Release Candidate 1 tomorrow, 9/14/2012
TO DO (All): Check in any changes by noon Pacific time tomorrow
TO DO (All): Download RC1 including new Model Generator feature & run w/ scenarios, try to break
TO DO (All): Review wording on website on features they developed (listed below) for accuracy
Bug Fixes from 1.3.1
Performance improvements
Simplified creation of new Disease and Population models (** New Feature STEM Model Generator)
Pajek-file Importer:
Enable import of discrete transportation events
Enable integration between user graphs and existing STEM graphs
New MapView to visualize the discrete transportation events and the ability to display multiple views of the same simulation
Polio Example
Stochastic Modeling Framework
Ability to Delete Items inside a Graph from Designer Perspective (To do or defer)
Deep copy drag and drop for models
Refactor
Create new mixing edges
Improved UI for decorators view
New Implementation of STEM Preferences
Time adaptive external data source models (in progress)
2. New Documentation for 1.4.0
Wiki practice
Mixing edges and mixing edge graph generator (DONE) integrated in transportation models page (DONE). Posted on newsgroup
* map view features
* Pajak import tutorial (DONE)
Best Practice for Developers, writing performance critical components in STEM (DONE)
Additional doc for more realistic food scenario (DONE)
Better top level food modeling doc (DONE)
New features/preferences to simplify new model creation (DONE)
*Exception: TO DO: Matt—boilerplate, Judy—posting on newsgroup
3. Food Distribution Comparison (update on new view)
Dan: Working on new view, two experiments (1. food distribution, contamination; 2. Spatial resolution @ zipcode level for Germany); now using hard code
TO DO (Dan): Create version of the patch w/o the graph file
4. Food production discussion
Jamie: Possible for BfR to aggregate data they have by food type?
TO DO (Chris): Will check w/ Matthias
5. Dengue update
Kamesh: Worked w/ scenario from Stefan; more to follow
Jamie: Note that # of mosquitoes is hard coded
6. Bugs of the week
None listed; have been cleaning out Bugzilla
7. Next Week (9/20) will be a very short (30min call). Agenda next week will focus only on any outstanding issues regarding release; plus possible dates for following release & features
8. ITEMS FROM PARTICIPANTS
Chris: Saw MIME, Eclipse plug-in project using Buckminister; seemed easy
*Matt: Have tried in past; Chris: Some problems reported w/ 3rd party libraries
TO DO (Chris): Send note to stem-dev, suggesting should try
