NEST Hackathon 2022 Q4

This hackathon will result in the next time-based release: version 3.4.

Where: Jülich Research Centre, building 15.9 big top seminar room

• 12 people can be present without masks

When: 2022-11-28 to 2022-12-02

Participants

• Abigail Morrison
• Anno Kurth
• Ayssar Benelhedi
• Dennis Terhorst
• Charl Linssen
• Guido Trensch
• Hans Ekkehard Plesser
• Håkon Mørk
• Jessica Mitchell
• Jochen Eppler
• Jose Villamar
• Markus Diesmann
• Robin De Schepper
• Pooja Babu
• Steffen Graber
• Susanne Kunkel
• ... ?

The plan!

• Get NEST 3.4 ready

  • Go through list and sort milestone

• review all PRs; reduce number of open PRs

• clean up branches (feature branches accidently left over); clean up members of nest organization (Friday)

• review what needs to happen for NESTML to replace all NEST built-in models

• PyNEST-NG / Wheels (Jochen, Robin, Håkon)

• New CI setup (Dennis)

• Docker / Conda / for 3.4 (Steffen)

• CMake for NESTGPU (Jose, Guido, Dennis)

Scheduled

• NEST typedefs—remove? (Plenary)
• versioning of NEST API: 2h discussion (Plenary)
• Dict Replacement Plenary (Plenary / Håkon)
• Performance benchmarking and integrating into the CI / Continuous benchmarking

Short report

PRs merged, issues closed

For PRs merged, see here

For PRs opened, see here

For issues closed, see here