Project Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

Maarten and Richard had a brief Skype conversation. Richard had circulated an email with a brief project update the day before (copy cut and pasted below this note).

Maarten indicated that he is scheduled to teach a workshop with Explora on July 31st, and wondered about use of the Sprint #1 outputs and the Musa sample data for the workshop.

Since the (currently) anticipated end of Sprint #1 would conceivably be complete by Friday August 1st, Richard set a milestone of providing the repackaged software within the week, and would test load the Musa data set by then. He will then give Maarten an update about this on Tuesday the 29th.

Meanwhile, Ricard suggested that Maarten should directly ask Max Ruas (via Elizabeth?) whether or not it is OK to use the Musa sample data in his upcoming workshop.

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Richard Bruskiewich [email protected] wrote:

Hi everyone,

I see a Skype tomorrow morning scheduled in my calendar - an interim discussion about sprint 1 germplasm selection tool.

Just a brief update here.

I'm pleased to say that prior to July 11th,  I signed off on the service contract for the project prepared by Elizabeth (with Ehsan Dulloo serving as the issuer), emailed a scanned copy of the signature to Bioversity then sent an original back to Bioversity by registered mail. Hopefully, the administrative wheels are now rolling for the project.
 Luca gave me access to the Bioversity Github germplasm-selection project, and I have started posting code there periodically.  I have immediately focused on creating a proper CRAN model structure. This is starting to take shape in the repository, but is not yet fully tested.
Max Ruas was kind enough to send some Musa data. Luca has pointed me to some compressed Genesys data. 

I've not yet run either data set through the tool, but will hopefully take a closer look at this by early next week.
We are about 11 days now into what I anticipate will be an approximately 3 week sprint. I guess I'll shoot for completion of this initial sprint by Friday, August 1st, or soon thereafter.  The sprint outputs are expected to be a baseline CRAN package with some basic streamlining of the code, mainly relating to tool installation, and some additional data stress testing (of the current code) plus some associated documentation.
If you have any questions or concerns about the above, feel free to bring them up in tomorrow's Skype conversation.

Cheers
Richard