MeetingNotes102109 - coin-or-foundation/tlc GitHub Wiki

October 21, 2009

The TLC met by teleconference on October 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM EST.

Agenda

  1. Making COIN more easily accessible
    • Set up a COIN-OR solver service server (should we illustrate how to use in CoinEasy)
    • Providing virtual machine images
    • Amazon Cloud Services
    • Binaries/Installers (InstallJammer)
  2. Trac upgrade debrief
  3. Instructions for projDesc.xml and for adding projects to project list posted
  4. Adding legal status to XML page
  5. Selection of CMS
  6. Adding user registration
    • I already have a patch (not installed yet) to require e-mail address and confirmation on registration.
  7. Require changelogs?
  8. Continue efforts related to build system?
  9. Nightly testing summaries
  10. Off-site hosting discussion
  11. Change structure of doxygen documentation generation so that documentation is local to individual projects and connected by doxygen tag files.
  12. Agenda for the coming year

Notes

  1. Feedback from INFORMS was that we should work on ways to make COIN easier to access for the average user. There are many good things going on, but much of it is not well publicized. It was decided to set up an experimental server to allow remote submission of optimization problems through the Optimization Services framework. We'll start with a single server and scale up as demand/time/technology allows. The idea of providing virtual machines with COIN pre-installed was thought not to be worth it. Stuart Mitchell has already set up COIN "in the cloud" on Amazon for anyone to use. We will look into this further. Ted is working on installers for binaries.
  2. Trac has been upgraded. There have been some minor glitches, but it seems to be working well overall. There are many plugins available for the new version.
  3. Interest was expressed in continuing to work on changes to the build system that were begun at the BSP. These efforts will be picked up again soon.
  4. It was agreed that we should go towards a system requiring an e-mail with registration. Bill Hart volunteered to work on modifications to the scripts required.