2020 06 08 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • t.b.a.

Mailing list

• https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

1. Models / NESTML
   • no major news
   • lot's of documentation
   • rate-models, ...
2. PyNEST
   • no major open issues
3. Kernel
   • no major updates
4. Installation
   • WSL issue resolved
   • vscode needs to be looked into
5. Infrastructure
   • travis python build script in review
6. Documentation
   • minor fixes to model docs (following #1530)
   • additions to the parallel computing guide, nest & multi-processing
7. EBRAINS
   • no activity
8. (Feature) Random number generation
   • working on implementing the random123 generators
9. (Feature) Automated Testing
   • no updates

In-depth discussion

• STDP and delays

  -> #1604 maybe split to separate VC

  -> separate poll for date

• Rewrite Testsuite harness in Python (postponed from last meeting)

  The test suite has grown historically and we would like to have your viewpoints on refactoring the shell scripts to a Python based setup.