2017 03 06 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome

2. → 🎂 NEST 2.12 released! 🎶 👍

   • joy and happyness
   • big thanks to all contributors!

3. Review of NEST User Mailing List

   discussed about

   • spike detectors in NEST-2.12,
   • libreadline7 on Ubuntu 16.10,
   • relation between NEST and cuda and
   • control over neuron placement on level of MPI processes

   All mails were taken care of.

   Anouncement will be sent to mailinglist about new behaviour of travis code checkers: now additionally to clang formating, you also need to make VERA++ happy. cppcheck runs, but is not accounted because of many false positives.

4. Review of open Github Pull Request

   • #669
     • at the moment it's more confusing than helpful
     • documentation exists but is very dispersed
   • #671 - reviewers assigned
   • #668 - in progress
   • #664 - in progress
   • #663
     • no easy solution
     • wait for results
   • #661 - review pending
   • #653 - discussed recently now skipped
   • #650 - many reviewers, but all are active
   • #526 - more invasive changes
   • #507 - now has benchmarks
     • tends to make things more complicated than benefits
     • add cmake flag for user configuration

5. Review of open Github Issues

   • #644 - is handled
   • #368 - will be taken care of by @abigailm
   • #480 - will be handled this week
     • GIDCollections exist already and PR will be created