2021 06 07 Open NEST Developer Video Conference
- Welcome
- Review of NEST User Mailing List
- Project team round
- In-depth discussion
- t.b.a.
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.
- Models / NESTML
- prototype for synapse rules with 3rd-factor plasticity being tested
- many variants of 3rd-factor rules, implementation details vary considerably, biophyiscally very different processes
- PyNEST
-
#1773 prepare/run/simulate/cleanup, needs assignment
- interacts with
callibrate, where many checks and exceptions are already done. - exceptions can be thown on node level, from kernel side operations are safe then
- -> separate session tomorrow
- interacts with
-
#1773 prepare/run/simulate/cleanup, needs assignment
- Kernel
- adaptive buffer size, spike compression and ring-buffers merged, running last checks of performance.
- Installation
- last PR #1959 for NEST 3.0 milestone
- -> look at tomorrow
- Infrastructure
- nothing to report
- Documentation
- style guide PR almost ready
- timers docs still in progress
- API docs requires separate step interacts with source directory, class docs need to guide users to the right places.
- EBRAINS
- nothing to report
- (Feature) Automated Testing
- no updates
- (Feature) Extension Module System
- nothing to report
- new timers need to be documented for the release
- caused much confusion in the past
- documentation needs to be written to close the PR
- need to have pro-active contact to PR creators
- Need common folder for PR materials (with corresponding licenses)
- Some materials like abstracts are available from conferences (e.g. Bernstein or NEST conferences), published with DOI.
