Meeting agenda 2020 04 02

• Time: Thursday, 2 April 2020, 21:00 UTC
• Location: https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/4456133935
• Moderator: Damien Irving
• Note taker: Damien Irving
• Attendees: Damien Irving, Luke Johnston, Charlotte Wickham
• Apologies:

Agenda

1. Overview of progress to date on sections of content:
   • Novice R: all on hold
   • Novice Python: all on hold
   • Intermediate: current focus of our efforts, specifically the chapter assignments in the table below
2. Overview of progress to date on other items
3. Proposals
4. Discussion items

Minutes

Progress report on Zipf's Law updates

Chapter	Title	File	Assignee	Progress
1	Introduction	py-rse-index.Rmd	@DamienIrving	DONE
2	Basics of the unix shell	py-rse/bash-basics.Rmd	@SaraMati	DONE
3	Going further with the unix shell	py-rse/bash-advanced.Rmd	@SaraMati	DONE
4	Command line programs	py-rse/py-scripting.Rmd	@DamienIrving	DONE
5	Git at the command line	py-rse/git-cmdline.Rmd	@cwickham	DONE
6	Advanced Git	py-rse/git-advanced.Rmd	@DamienIrving	IN PROGRESS
7	Automating Analyses	py-rse/automate.Rmd	@joelostblom	DONE
8	Program configuration	py-rse/configuration.Rmd	@DamienIrving	DONE
9	Error handling	py-rse/errors.Rmd	@joelostblom	UNDER REVIEW
10	Working in teams	py-rse/teams.Rmd	@k8hertweck	DONE
11	Code style, review and refactor	py-rse/style.Rmd	@gvwilson	ABOUT TO START
12	Project structure	py-rse/project.Rmd	@k8hertweck	IN PROGRESS
13	Python packaging	py-rse/package-py.Rmd	@joelostblom	UNDER REVIEW
14	Correctness	py-rse/correct.Rmd	@lwjohnst86	DONE
15	Continuous integration	py-rse/ci.Rmd	@lwjohnst86	UNDER REVIEW
16	Publishing	py-rse/publish.Rmd	@DamienIrving	DONE

Minute notes

• We've missed our end of March deadline for updating all the chapters with the Zipf's Law content, but edits on the outstanding chapters are either in progress or under review, so we should hopefully be done by next meeting
• One we've hit DONE on every chapter in the table above, we'll need a similar table listing all the minor features and fixes that each chapter needs to be checked for. This will include:
  • Exercises
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Key points
  • Current status of the project directory structure and scripts
  • Heading format/levels
  • Tense
• Those people who aren't involved in the final tidy up of the intermediate Python volume can probably resume work on the novice Python (now that we've established what Python concepts are and are not covered in the intermediate volume) or intermediate R (now that we've established Zipf's Law as the intermediate data analysis problem to focus on) volumes.
  • ACTION: Damien to ask who is interested in working on novice Python or intermediate R, to get a sense of whether we possibly need to bring some more people into the project to help
• NEXT MEETING: Should be 1 hour earlier to account for the fact that daylight savings has now started in many places in the Northern Hemisphere.