| [stem-dev] Notes from today's STEM community call |
STEM Community Call March 14, 2013 On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Matthias, Chris, Alex, Anne, Judy 1. V 2.0 Milestone 1 to be available Tuesday, April 2 TO DO: Update date on Webpage Discussion: Milestone (instead of a Release) allows early exploration of code generation within STEM and other select features without going through formal process w/ Eclipse; Milestone makes most technologically up-to-date version available to users, is essentially a Tech Preview for power users; Release is the most stable and officially approved version; eventual new Release will include all features tested in Milestones TO DO: Explain distinction on download page; make both available for users to choose from TO DO: Watch stem-dev for instructions on updating environment Milestone 1: UI, model development workflow, builder tools, xtext, all in STEM Significant progress on both in last few days (thanks Matt and Stefan); hence setting April 2nd date Milestone 2: Hot injection of generated plugins Work on this almost completed; what showed BfR in Berlin last summer is now implemented in STEM itself and can access with click; almost to code free disease development tool Milestone 3: GUI Still need this, but everything has to be in place first Jamie: Can BfR assist? Input from biologist (Alex) would help Matthias: Can do this summer or later this year Jamie: Timing perfect Other Discussion Points (Matt) Move to Eclipse 3.8? Need to do so for target platform. Chris & Alex: Now use 3.8 Issue: Use source code bundles? TO DO: Determine how much including source code will increase size of STEM (i.e., the “costs”) 2 different downloads? One w/ source code for power users, one for other users Issue: Java doc? Jar files? How to do documentation of _expression_ language? TO DO: Explore for further discussion next week Jamie: Now w/ STEM project user may want to extend by adding, deleting plugins; user has to manage work space
Jamie: Need long term plan to fix Europe map Matthias: EU Inspire legal framework requires geospatial data to meet agreed upon standards & to be open; can access online; could be interim solution instead of shape file importer Jamie: Summer intern in 2013 will work on model generator; summer intern in 2014 will work on Europe map Jamie: Could introduce to WHO folks. Matthias: BfR unable to attend Chris: Committed new code for visualization showing extent of good transported into a region Jamie: Is getting permission to send Matthias a video of IBM demo of material not yet in STEM; will talk w/ Matthias after concall Matt: Transition to GIT? TO DO (All): Think about this; will discuss next week Matthias: At March meeting in Spain met food safety VP from USA. Jamie: May possibly work w/ him Stefan: Helping w/ data for Uganda, problem w/ shape file. Jamie: Will help Matthias: Status of work on new logger? Jamie: Will be in Release 2.0, not in the Milestone April 2 |