Software WG taskforce: simulator selection resource

Meeting 9: Wed 22 Mar, 1400 UTC

Next meeting: Wed 5 Apr, 1400 UTC

Attendees

discuss current state
Split into separate groups (e.g. data curation, frontend logic, frontend design?)

Prototype deployed here: https://simselect.fly.dev/project_browser (not really a prototype, just placeholder)
runs under Marcel's personal (free) account for now, needs a better long-term solution
may need a schema to validate data documents in the long run, in the short run we need to just define the fields and the options for the fields where we only want fixed options
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3262569/validating-a-yaml-document-in-python
- https://json-schema.org//
for urls etc., follow PyPi method of having some fixed url types, but also allow more fields that people can note
things like version, latest release: only include if they can be automated
- https://release-monitoring.org

Name
Website URL
Operating system: Windows, macOS, Linux
Biological level/model type: population model, single-compartment (simple), single-compartment (complex), multi-compartment model
Computing scale: single machine, cluster, supercomputer, GPU, Neuromorphic chip
interface (language): GUI, Python, Hoc, C, C++, CLI
Model description language: NMODL, NeuroML/LEMS, NestML

Reema split up master file into individual files
Marcel work on automating deployment from GH to fly
Reema, Eliane, Ankur: review individual files
- Comment as "# reviewed by .." to indicate file has been processed
- Where unsure, use a "# TODO: …" comment; feel free to open GH issues