ABI Meeting minutes 2008-11-12
Present: Randall Britten, Tommy Yu, Justin Marsh, Dougal Cowan, David Cumin, James Lawson, Andrew Miller, Michael Backhaus
Apologies: Poul Nielsen, Mike Cooling
2.) Randall to email developers about priorities for PCEnv development.
2) PCEnv development - update
3) CellML API - update
4) Website redesign - update
5) Repository contributions - update
6) PMR2 development - update
7) Updates or additional items
Apologies: Poul Nielsen, Mike Cooling
Last Week's Action items:
1.) James to draft an email to the community about the decision making process and structure.- James has sent the email, and is drafting a document on the structure/process.
2.) Randall to email developers about priorities for PCEnv development.
- Andre and Alan agree that Java wrappers should be a priority.
- Tommy has run the script. There are some pages which do not supply an error code and yet are broken - these will need to be found and fixed manually.
This week's agenda:
1) CellML Specs - update- Randall explained the initial value problem and proposed a breakaway meeting to discuss it.
- James continues to draft the metadata spec proposal, and wants to have it finished ready for discussion by the time he goes to Singapore.
2) PCEnv development - update
- Justin has been working exclusively on the Mac OS build.
3) CellML API - update
- Andrew has been doing mainly bugfixes, to do with Ubuntu 8.10.
- Randall suggested he and Andrew have a chat about the levmar solver
- Randall raised the issue of multiple equations for one variable; gave the example of an upper limit (eg a physical barrier) on a sinusoidal function. This is discussed in tracker item 1440.
4) Website redesign - update
- James has been working on content creation
- James discussed preserving the wiki content; possibly transforming it to another format or re-working it somehow.
5) Repository contributions - update
- No updates.
6) PMR2 development - update
- Tommy has been hooking up the Mercurial library to PMR2.
- Can now view Mercurial workspace histories.
- Can now import Mercurial workspaces into Plone 3.
7) Updates or additional items
- James discussed the work of the gold-medal winning iGEM team from Newcastle, who he and Mike have been advising. James and Mike are writing a paper with them.
- Andrew has been making incremental improvements to the SBML to CellML translation tool.