2020 08 03 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round
4. In-depth discussion
   • Badges in NEST Readme.md
   • StackOverflow Tag

Mailing list

• https://nest-simulator.org/mailinglist

Project team round

Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.

1. Models / NESTML
   • nothing to report (vacation)
2. PyNEST
   • nothing to report (vacation)
   • #1539 progress?
3. Kernel
   • no report (vacation)
4. Installation
   • working on reviews, nothing major to report, need MacOS people to look into issues there
5. Infrastructure
   • fixed macos build on github
6. Documentation
   • many things from gh-pages were already copied to the RTD docs
   • now uses consistently python3 instead of python
7. EBRAINS
   • nothing to report
8. (Feature) Random number generation
   • no report (vacation)
9. (Feature) Automated Testing
   • no report (vacation)

In-depth discussion

Badges in NEST Readme.md

• not too many numbers
• also put / move badges into other parts of the documentation
• social buttons may be useful only for the redirect

#1289 Create a Stack Overflow tag

• stack overflow answers are really well visible
• stack overflow is much more searchable than the mailing list
• who would maintain answers on stack overflow
• currently few people with SO account
• could create nest tag "nest-simulator"
• requirements for tag to stay alive: https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-tags
• would reduce traffic on mailing list

Conclusion: We all should get StackOverflow accounts.