2020 11 23 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

Agenda

Welcome
Review of NEST User Mailing List
Project team round
In-depth discussion
- Proposed topic: Compiler variants vs. MPI implementations
- Proposed topic: OSS plans on Travis CI for NEST and NESTML

Mailing list

https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist
all handled

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.

Models / NESTML
- working on numerical issues of the Siegert neurons
- Travis discussion (see in-depth)
PyNEST
- closing some inactive issues with insufficient information and no replies anymore.
Kernel
- ModelsModule refactoring from SLI function to plain nest::register_builtin_models(), being discussed.
- Timers being finalized for last barriers being removed, CI needs to rerun.
Installation
- no major updates
- discussed Fedora libpython linking #1630
Infrastructure
- Travis is up and working again
- fixed the warning reporting and included ignore-list for unsolvable SLI warnings. now at zero warnings, build will fail if you introduce new ones. Look into the Travis build log, the summary contains the list of files that contains the warnings.
- need review of the CI pipeline documentation #1837
Documentation
- closed ~10 documentation related PRs in the last weeks
- NEST Server documentation updated, expect PR soon.
- build system refactored to unify build and doc system. Requires more testing/review. #1843
EBRAINS
- nothing to report
(Feature) Random number generation
- started to update documentation, RNG guide, etc.
- need to run some larger benchmarks
(Feature) Automated Testing
- nothing to report
(Feature) Extension Module System
- see kernel
- ConnGen refactoring done and reviewed #1830, works since MacOS fix is in.