ABI CellML Meeting Minutes 2009-05-20

Last week's action items:

1. Tommy to change PCEnv instances to OpenCell in PMR2. [Done]
   
2. Everyone to read Matt's email on the Saint/annotation issue.

• Still not everyone managed to read it.
• James and Mike have read it.
• James has replied.
• It was agreed that James and Mike having read and responded was sufficient.
  

This week's agenda:

1. (Mike) BestGRID opportunities for CellML.

• Mike has been contacted by people responsible for BestGRID to see if there are any possible projects that could benefit from using it.
• Trial with some CellML models and the API or serialisation solvers.
• Could a web service be used with BestGRID?
• Randall mentioned the CellML simulator as a possible?
  

• Is the bottleneck in the access via International links?
• ITS should be able to provide some insight into this.
• Hosting on external resource like Sourceforge, Berlios, Amazon EC2?
  
• Retrieving appears to be the main issue.
• Moving to a distributed repository system should alleviate some of the problems.
• Mercurial being a distributed repository system is a good choice.
• PMR2 is also using Mercurial.
• Peter agrees with this direction.
• Randall suggests to host on an external Mercurial repository.
• Separate repositories for each project?
• Andrew thinks this would be a good idea.
• Randall said that we would proceed with migration to an externally hosted Mercurial repository.  We would not go through a consultation on this decision with the wider community, since that would cost time, and we need to balance consultation with time spent.  A break-away meeting was held to work through some of the details of the migration.
  

• Testing of PMR2 v0.1 RC1.
• Stress testing will be today (20/05/2009).
• Randall received quote from ITS.
• Peter Schmiedeskamp said timeframe would be 2 days from go ahead to ready to use.
  
• Mike is going to be testing PMR2.
• General.
• Randall queried the necessity of the sidebar portlet.
• Sidebar portlet to be removed prior to testing by Mike.
• Peter would like simple CellML model put in by Mike.
• Mike already has in simple model in mind.
• James commented that the workflow seems a bit complicated.
• Renaming of exposure pages?  It's not a common thing.
• James has a list of issues.
• James to upload 1.1 file.
• Tommy to email Mike about PMR2 will be ready for testing.
  
• Mercurial Forest is not going to be part of v0.1
• Peter asked what 'forest' is.  Extension to Mercurial to link to other repositories local and external.
• All Mikes modules depend on other repositories currently.
• Randall queries why separate workspaces for each model?
• Randall thinks that the sandbox idea should be rethought.
• The ability to create logins will be restricted once the release happens.
• Also restricts workspace creation.
  

• James is reviewing and has a list of issues.
• Icons are required prior to release.
• There are some dead links.
• Logos and links to funding agencies needs to be reviewed/updated.  VPH and IUPS.
  

• James has gone through models reviewing units and has found some more difficult than others.
• Peter suggested flagging model as working or not and why.

• Metadata specifications (general, citations, graphing, simulation, other).
• Tommy still to have a look once v0.1 is out.
  
• General issues.

• General issues.
• Andrew fixed problem where model with large number of equations is slow to solve.
• Andrew has added option to eliminate unused equations.
  

• Andrew has done work on treeview node.
• Snapshot problem on windows.
• Code is still slow.
• Builds perhaps not integrating fixes.
• Andrew Cantell is in the process of providing a couple of machines for CellML work.
  

• Mike asked for an update on Java API for Windows work.