STEM Community Call September 26, 2013
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Chris, Judy
1.Milestone 5 is now available
STEM 2.0 release date 10/15
Draft Slides complete (please send me any feedback)
TO DO: Schedule release review date (and send in the draft slides); Jamie to send email
V 2.0 Release Features include:
Xtext model generator feature
Graphical Model Design (GUI for code generation, Visual Editor )
Bug Fixes from 1.4.1
Performance improvements
Advanced Dengue Example
Directionally biased mixing model
**Stochastic Modeling - New Solver doc. Fixes to older models
Draggable solver objects
**After Eclipse’s release we need to contact Eclipse legal re Apache
2. New Documentation for 2.0
==== Pubs updated on wiki
==== Updated Upcoming (and recent) talks on main website
==== Use of model generator inside of stem (vs in the dev environment) - done
==== Added new document Stefan’s new periodic control graph generator - done
==== Documentation for MMR model - done
==== Shape file graph generator - need new screenshop on wiki - done
==== Visual Editor - done and growing
==== Stochastic solver - done
==== New doc on the multipopulation models done
TO DO: Update scenario building tutorial – Stefan
TO DO: Update doc on menu items, including Tools – Jamie
2.b. New Demos wish list for V2.0
* Demo project for Model Builder Demo complete
* Avian Influenza complete
3. Bugs of the week
417656 Finite Difference Solver hangs
Status: FIXED, throws an exception. Jamie changed code, added “minimum step size”, can change default value
400930 Deleting a graph makes models/scenario useless
Status: NOT A BUG. May have occurred because “updated references” wasn’t checked
TO DO: Chris to look @ usability issues
TO DO: Jamie to create different bug on how to handle deep copying between projects; not for this release
409742 Mercator Map Logger does not export images with black borders
Status: DEFERRED. Jamie to check w/ Matt; not for this release
409540 Proposal: Make solvers "first class" objects
Status: COMPLETE
368889 For M5: Enable stochastic simulations for older disease models
Status: COMPLETE except for Dengue; Dengue is not included in this release
4. TODO check that change to random number generator for V2 does not break integration tests (or fix it)
Status: Scenario integrator tested, works; COMPLETE
5. Items from Participants
Jamie: Stefan will moderate call next week
Jamie: Will be @ IBM Germany week of October 7
Judy: Will be on holiday October 6-16
Chris: Will be in San Francisco October 7-16; will let Jamie know when he can be in San Jose
TO DO: Jamie & Stefan will each send manuscript to Judy shortly for editorial review
TO DO: Chris will alert Alex - projects will crash w/o update on solvers
Chris: When resizing window had to fix so it would repaint; DONE
