PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Dec. 18, 2008

This report is also available online 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.

JAR generation

· Fixed generation of JAR files, with Dano and Chris

o Needs testing and minor integration with build process

o Then old build process can be discarded

Server

· Collaborate with John to configure phet server

Sim Tracking

· Discussions with Chris, Dano, Jonathan, see Unfuddle for details

Translations

· Assist in configuring Marj’s environment to resolve a few problems

· Discuss handling of name change with John

· Discuss problem that JNLP are deployed for all repository flavors, not all tigercat flavors, see Unfuddle

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