PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Jan 17, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

Hiring Process

· Received about 25 applications.

· Narrowed down to best 5-or-so, with rough ordering

· Interviews next

· Notify applicants?

Translation

· Rewrote Translation-Deploy utility

· Used to post Dutch CCK and Serbian Wave Interference

· Difficult to test: we’ll proceed with caution and manual tests for first several usages.

Misc

· Build Process

1. Should we switch from shared-jar to one-jar-per-flavor paradigm?

· Flash Player Issue (see Unfuddle Ticket)

· Rotation: increased graph font sizes

Upcoming Work

· John’s resignation

o Transfer of knowledge

o Hiring process

· Rotation/Torque

· CCK

o Organize requests into unfuddle

o Bugfixes

· Continue developing Moving Man, Force1D, Ramp with new common libraries, (with Chris)

o Moving man basically complete, start on Ramps next, and use that as the basis for Force1D

o Add “draw-in-graph to create” function for moving-man.

· Generate better reports from Unfuddle/identify ticket times in Unfuddle

· Convert translation utility to use latest version of all-sims.jar (discuss with Chris)

See also Unfuddle for detailed remaining work.