PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Jan 8, 2009

An online version of this report is available here.

This report covers Dec 18, 2008-Jan 7, 2009; I had several vacation days in this time period.

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

I worked reduced hours this week, and will continue to work reduced hours until around January 23, due to vacation and academic responsibilities. I'll be out of town and away from email Friday Jan 9 through Sunday Jan 11.

Licensing

· Posted new licensing report here

· Add annotations for many images

· Delete many unused images

· Add reports for contrib libraries

· Clean up rule set (to improve readability for reporting)

· What's next?

Build-Process

· Improve layout and control panels based on feedback from Chris

· Removed XML implementation

· Provided Ant launcher for PhetBuildGUI

· Added -dev to JNLP args for deploy to spot and tigercat

Sim-Tracking

· Meetings & Discussions

· Verify and close tickets resolved by Chris

Motion

· Started framework for new Ramp Model implementation

Misc

· Removed usage of SimStrings in moving-man, qwi, radio-waves, wave-interference

· Restructure IntelliJ module file

· Discuss multiscaling with John for image quality on scaling

Upcoming Work

· Issues for 3/31/2009 Milestone

1. Sim-specific issues

2. Phetcommon issues, e.g. tracking + updates

3. Build Process issues, e.g. Java 1.5

· Motion series suite.

· For full details, See ticket report "Sam R: Report" here