ApCoCoA-meeting


Time and place: October 13th 2009, 14:00 o'clock in Passau

Present:

• Passau: Martin Kreuzer, Thomas Stadler, Stefan Schuster, Ehsan Ullah, Xingqiang Xiu, Rashid Ali, Philipp Jovanovic, Jan Brandt, Jan Limbeck, Stefan Kaspar

Absent with valid excuse: Matthias Machnik, Manuel Danisch


Topics:

S. Schuster:

• has changed the plugin/feature-structure. Now eclipse recognizes automatically the correct operating system.
• building plugin and standalone-version is more comfortable
• soon standalone version for Linux and Mac will be available

R. Ali:

• has completed the last functions for ApCoCoA-1.3
• has discussed about problems in the weyl-code of CoCoA with A. Bigatti
• X. Xiu is rewriting his code to use it in Weyl-algebras
• will finish the documentation till Wednesday, 14th October 2009

X. Xiu:

• has checked in his code
• will document his functions till tomorrow
• is working on functions for Weyl-code of R. Ali

E. Ullah:

• has documented his functions in the Wiki
• will now look on commands for systems of equations in characteristic 2

J. Brandt:

• Test-suite completed and documented
• tests are running successfully under Windows and Mac
• will create a wiki-site about the status of the test-suite

S. Kaspar:

• has documented the new functions
• has written a release-script for Ubuntu virtual machine

J. Limbeck:

• has checked in his code and written the documentation
• has updated the risc-branch in the repository
• has written some nice convenience functions, e.g. Ceil and Floor.
• has fixed a bug in the old Qt-GUI
• will write a Windows release-script
• will introduce CMake in the risc-branch

P. Jovanovic:

• has finished the code for minisat and moved it to the package sat
• has written the documentation

T. Stadler:

• is writing a german tutorial for ApCoCoA (including a Tutorial for the GUI)
• will announce a new server for Virtual Box
• will check the written documentation and update the ApCoCoA Online Help

The next ApCoCoA-meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 16th 2009, 14:00 o'clock in Passau with small release party of ApCoCoA-1.3.


Feel free to complain, corrections are welcome!

Best regards,
Thomas Stadler