ABI CellML Meeting Minutes 2009-07-08
ABI CellML Meeting minutes 2009-07-01
Present: Andrew Miller, Amir Shirkhani, David "Andre" Nickerson, Tommy Yu, Justin Marsh, Catherine Lloyd
Apologies: Peter Hunter, Poul Nielsen, Randall Britten, James Lawson
Last week's action items:
1) Tommy to make a list of models that lack "keyword" metadata.
- Tommy gave James a metadata tool to facilitate this.
2) Randall to get the MATLAB converter onto the summer student list.
- Randall has done this.
3) Randall to contact ITS about hosting for cellml.org.
- Randall has done this.
This week's agenda:
1) IUPS preparation
- A breakaway meeting has been called for this item.
2) PMR2 Update
- Tommy is working on the transition to Mercurial version 1.3. This version of Mercurial has subrepo as a module, allowing for the possibility of nested workspaces without having to deal with Mercurial forest.
- Peter Hunter has requested some specific pieces of integration with the euHeart database; Tommy is working on this.
- A PMR2 tutorial with three student went ahead on Tuesday.
3) Repository Contributions
- Catherine has continued to code up two models.
- Jeelean has worked on a cell cycle model
- James was working on validation of models in the repository
4) Website Redesign
- Catherine has proofread the tutorials.
- A list of changes has been sent to Dougal; he is working through these.
- Andre has file tracker items about areas of the website which have broken markup.
- A number of the errors were introduced by how the HTML editor in the site is being used.
- Catherine has also mentioned Safari specific rendering bugs.
- Dougal is checking the website under all major browsers, and is setting up checks for broken links.
5) OpenCell updates
- Justin has been working on a branch with changes that depend on a prerelease version of xulrunner. This branch deals with Tracker Items 230 and 126.
6) CellML API updates
- Andrew has implemented QueryInterface in the Java binding. This fixes Tracker Item 1821.
- Andrew noted that we have very little in the way of automatic tests for the Java bindings.
- Amir has been getting up to speed with the CellML API build process and internals.
7) CellML Specifications
- No update.