PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Dec. 11, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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.

Server

· Set up jdk/intellij/email notifier/svn/phet-trunk

· Remaining tasks:

o VNC client (should be built in)

o Launch tasks on startup, currently manual

o svnsync for unfuddle svn backup

Language-JARs

· Tested, commented on and wrote bugfixes for the JAR generation script

· Still needs further testing, and a way to launch automatically at deploy-time

Translations

· Discuss adding country codes to translations.

Misc

· Eating & Exercise meeting with IPHY team

· Rotation bugfixes, see discussion and proposed fix here

· Discussed clip art licensing

Upcoming Work

· Several tickets to verify and close related to tracking+updates

· Language+Flavor Jar generation

· Upgrading to Java 1.5

1. Adding an in-sim message that says 1.5 is required

2. 1.4 bootstrap code

· Motion series suite.

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