| [stem-dev] Notes from today's STEM community call |
STEM Community Call April 5, 2012 On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Chris, Alex, Werner, Judy 1. 1.3.1 RELEASE DATE Date of 4/15 confirmed Code Freeze date for branch this Friday 4/6: No problems; Everyone will be checked in by end of day today Need to list Chris as BfR. TODO: Chris will send email he wrote to webmaster on to Jamie, who will forward Logo requires institutional membership. TODO: Matthias needs to discuss w/ BfR legal team v) Add description/help to view (where?) Alex/Chris: Have created model, may send out next week. First part good, parts 2 (slaughterhouse) & 3 “rich example” TODO: Send to Jamie & team for testing TODO: Send Jamie short description of model STEM home page, also read me file, wiki doc Jamie: Considering every model BfR would want to do, is STEM core missing anything? Alex/Chris: Nothing identified as of now TOD: Create some graphics, can use as part of wiki page 6. BUGS OF THE WEEK 375126 (Jamie): Heads up. The bug was caused by a change to BIRT. BIRT now uses palette colors by default. To set custom colors we must always first issue lineSeries.setPaletteLineColor(false); FIX IS IN for TimeSeriesCanvas 376197 (Jamie): Other "feature" of new BIRT version. Axes are "categories" by default even with numeric series Need to issue xAxisPrimary.setCategoryAxis(false); 376149 (Chris): Problem in execution of asynchronous events in Simulation Jamie: Not a bug - there are asynchronous and synchronous threads.... NEED TO DISCUSS THIS NEXT WEEK (not for this release) i) Make map synchronous ii) option iii) when to pause 7. NOMINATIONS, CONFERENCES Werner: Possible nomination for Health Media Award (HMA)? Need German speaker TODO: Chris will check w/ Matthias TODO: Chris will send Werner a copy of BfR’s proposal to Eclipse IDD 2012 8. BfR SUMMER WORKSHOP PLANNING TODO: Chris will see if Matthias will be on call next week to discuss; OPTION: Jamie and Matthias can have call @ separate time Stefan: Working on instrumentation, getting rid of excess objects that affect performance (1) eliminated doubling #s in e-core copy, next ATI will be automatic; (2) replaced loops; (3) created pooler for label values; (4) created pooler for exchange objects. Jamie: Everyone needs to create a pool. TODO (Stefan): Discuss todos re DOC and Code generation (also page on wiki) TODO (Stefan): Discuss performance improvement and object pooling next week Chris: Working on visualization, e.g., zooming in as on Google maps Alex: Working on visualization Judy: TODO: Carry over agenda items; track air travel documentation (JK) Werner: Checking nomination process |