PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Jan 24, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Job Applications

· Evaluate applications

· Interviews (2 on Tues, one more coming up Thursday)

· Notify applicants?

Build Process

· Cleanup build+deploy tasks, with Chris.

· Needs more attention and testing.

Website

· Investigated broken installer builders

Flash

· New Zealand client wants to embed in an online activity:

· Identify problems compiling masses & springs.

· http://oasis.phy.auckland.ac.nz/oasis/a/practice/question/36/12

· Identified and resolved problem with launching flash (incompatible flash installer was linked).

· Client is working to make it easy to generate random parameters for masses and springs outside of the application for evaluation purposes.

· We should pick a single version to continue with (there are 3 now in sourceforge)

Translations

· Deployed Greek, Chinese

Installer JAR sizes

· While switching from “shared-jar” to “one-jar-per-flavor” paradigm would simplify the build process, it would increase the size of the installer substantially (10+MB)

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.