PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

August 21, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

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

Eating & Exercise

· Deployed 0.00.71-0.00.77

· See linked change notes for details

Translations

· Patched sims on tigercat to ensure English translation can load on non-English machines.

· Mixed results from translator/testers (1 success, 1 fail as of 8-20-2008, still awaiting more feedback)

SVN

· Investigated possibility of using git as an svn replacement

· Pro: Faster, smaller, ability to work offline or during server outage

· Con: Poor support on Windows currently (though there is a CVS emulator), would need to manually post a public version (if we use Unfuddle hosting)

· When I asked Unfuddle if their SVN server was as sluggish as their website, they said that their website is provably very fast. I’m not sure how SVN speed would be.

CCK

· Worked with John & Archie to prioritize and give time estimates for Unfuddle tickets.

· Total estimated time is around 40 hours for all high priority CCK issues.

Misc

· Forces-1D: discussed improvements with Noah.

· Discussed translation utility issues with Chris regarding translation of common strings

Upcoming Work

· Eating & Exercise (see Unfuddle & todo doc)

· CCK (with John) (see Unfuddle)

· Fix strings in all sims (based on Alex report)

· Chris fixed photoelectric layout issue, should be deployed to dev, tested, sent to Sam M. and sent to tigercat; has this been done?

· Make translated sims available offline, need time estimate from Dano for required changes to website

· Merge ramp, forces-1d, moving man?

· Look through license issues, make it easy for others to contribute annotations/images

· Investigate ADA for piccolo?

· Follow up on Russian wiki, see also here

· Confirm no more GPL dependencies?

· Make “yes”, “no” and other built-in swing strings translatable, are showing up incorrect on non-English computers