Apologies Matt,

Just read your Meeting Notes (should have done that first), so a small
amendment. Insert at top of my list

nupic repo remains with entire current contents

nupic.core etc...

Regards,

Fergal Byrne


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Fergal Byrne
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks Matt,
>
> That'll be a huge step forward, well done for getting it out the door as a
> priority. I think your point (made during the Office Hour) about
> incrementally including regression tests as a way to control the migration
> is vital, and I think you should proceed as you suggested by putting
> "trivial" or basic regression tests in and then driving enthusiasts (Marek
> springs to mind) to add to and improve them.
>
> I agree with Chetan about using dots in the repo names (it's become a
> convention in most OSS projects as well as in namespaces). In addition,
> this will allow us to extend the hierarchy at a later date rather than
> build new repos. This also answers the python question by using the github
> naming convention (project.repo.component.subcomponent..). Here's a
> candidate:
>
> nupic.core is the repo for a pure C++ stack, including:
> nupic.core.lib - project packaging the nupic-core API as a GLIBC library
> (and Windows equivalents)
> nupic.core.app - command line app (single download, easy to build
> binaries) which reads a single config file: "nupic -c
> hotgym/nupic-config.json"
>
> nupic.py is the python project repo, including
> nupic.py.bindings
> nupic.py.lib - python library version of NuPIC, eventually packageable as
> a python package
> nupic.py.clients - approved clients including OPF, various runners,
> visualisers, Cerebro etc. These would each be in nupic.python.clients.opf
> for example.
>
> nupic.ruby repo includes
> nupic.ruby.lib makes a nupic gem
> nupic.ruby.clients
>
> nupic.your-lang-here
>
> I recommend setting up most of these language repos with just a README.md
> calling for people to fork and build the initial version, then pull them in
> yourself when appropriate, at which point you could appoint the forker as
> lead maintainer for that repo (or continue to point people to the fork and
> manage the merges yourselves).
>
> Regards,
>
> Fergal Byrne
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Matt Keith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think it all depends on how you define 'client'.  If the OPF is
>> considered a client, then I think that it should be separate from the
>> python bindings.  However, I think that the python encoders should be
>> included in the python bindings repo.  So maybe something like this:
>> nupic.core <- nupic.python (includes encoders and simple example) <-
>> additional clients or projects using nupic
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Trivial suggestion: how about naming the repo 'nupic.core'? The dot
>> notation to demonstrate project hierarchy seems cleaner to me (and is
>> common on GitHub).
>>
>> Other repo names might look like 'nupic.python' and
>> 'nupic.python.client'.
>> On Jan 23, 2014 8:30 AM, "Matthew Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> You guys want a C++ core extracted from NuPIC, so we're going to plan
>>> it. Starting next sprint[1], we're going to work on pulling all the C++ out
>>> of NuPIC into a repo called 'nupic-core'.
>>>
>>> We had a meeting Monday[2] where we discussed many of the details of
>>> this plan, and I created some diagrams to describe the plan[3]. Please take
>>> a moment to review these and provide feedback for this plan. The end goal
>>> is this:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/images/nupic-core-extraction-goal.jpg
>>>
>>> We still have some open questions that we'll work out as we go along,
>>> for example:
>>>
>>> 1. Should there be different repos for language bindings AND clients? Or
>>> should they be combined in one repository?
>>> 2. How will our build automation need to change to accommodate these
>>> changes?
>>> 3. Do we include general encoders in nupic-core? (they are all currently
>>> within python)
>>>
>>> I'd like to hear opinions on this whole plan. We want nupic-core to be
>>> generic enough to provide what everyone wants, so if this plan seems to
>>> restrict your particular use-case, let's discuss it.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues?milestone=9
>>> [2]
>>> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/2014-January-Core-API-Meeting-Notes
>>> [3] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/NuPIC-Core-Extraction-Plan
>>>
>>> ---------
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>>> Numenta
>>>
>>>
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