2020 05 11 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

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Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Review of NEST User Mailing List
3. Project team round special mentions:
4. In-depth discussion
   • Define semantics of NodeConnection and Connect() based on discussion in #1570; see also #1539, #1563

Mailing list

• all mails handled

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.

• all teams in normal operation
• RNG seeding strategy is being reworked and documented
• Automatic Testing PRs are being split to more digestible units
• overall, many new features are implemented, code reviews need to catch up

In-depth discussion

Define semantics of NodeConnection and Connect() based on discussion in #1570; see also #1539, #1563

• discussed handling of multapses=False for source/target lists with non-unique IDs. Avoiding multapses can only be done with a reasonable amount of computation for source lists with unique IDs.
• discussed implicit vs. explicit handling of uniqueness test. Applying uniqueness tests to potentially non-unique data types will be done implicitly to comply to user experience, but needs explicit documentation that it may be significantly slower.