Kepler LT conference call
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Aug 10, 2011
Participants: Jones, Ludaescher, Schildhauer, McPhillips, Altintas, Brooks
Agenda and Notes:
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* K/C final report (end of August), due 90 days after (end of November)
-- Bertram: will organize and compile report overall
-- All: send pubs
-- Ilkay: survey of projects using Kepler; also individual users, especially PhD students
-- use form on plone site
-- Ilkay: should compile scientific pubs arising from Kepler
-- Matt: compile download stats over time
* Dependency problems with build/module system
* Ilkay's items
-- release plans
-- Derik working on Kepler 2.3 release, and reporting modules release
-- Need to plan 2.4 release
-- Ilkay: should plan on including 'redirect; code in 2.4
-- Include sensor-view support
-- Ilkay: theme to bring other communities in
-- how do we manage the release process? coordinate via the release roadmap pages for each release
-- note that the release page dates are out of date
-- update this: https://kepler-project.org/developers/teams/build/kepler-release-roadmap
-- how do we decide which bugs get fixed in the releases?
-- especially considering the lack of funding?
-- release manager: good, but also need a mini release team
-- Tim: release team should control when a release is ready
-- Tim: part of the problem is that our developers are not users, so don't always have the same perspective as users
-- more outdated stuff on the web page:
https://kepler-project.org/developers/management
(Bertram, Mark: K/LT terms expired)
-- broken links:
---- https://kepler-project.org/developers/teams/build: Build and Release Team Charter (https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler-docs/trunk/teams-and-wg/2-teams/build-release/kepler-build-release-charter.doc)
* Support issues
-- need to do a better job supporting users as requests come in
-- assignments were working reasonably, but we need to stay organized
-- bug handler/triage:
-- @NCEAS: Matt, Derik, Jing
-- @Ptolemy: Christopher
-- @Davis: Lei, Sean
-- @UCSD: Ilkay, Dan, Jianwu
-- rather than having individuals sign up, instead have groups sign up each week
-- triage person to identify what is really wrong, follow through to completion
-- reminder person: Matt
* Funding projects update
-- UC Davis: FilteredPush project with Harvard University uses Kepler for "curation workflows" (1 FTE: postdoc)
-- USCSB/Cornell: Science Pipes for Education with ESA (~ 0.75 FTE engineer for 14 months)
-- working with a bunch of scientists to build educational workflows for science classes
-- UCSD: bioKepler/NSF ABI (1.5 FTE through end of 2014)
-- UCSD: DISCOSci/NSF CDI (0.5 FTE through end of 2103)
-- UCSD: CAMERA/Moore F. (0.5 FTE through end of 2012)
Issues to roll over to next conf call:
* Future funding
* newsletter
* outreach
* Bertram, Mark: K/LT terms expired