| title | Casal2 Project Status |
|---|---|
| permalink | /project_status/ |
Casal2 has issued a release in June 2024 (2024.06). The project is currently seeking further funding to develop new features and maintain the project.
(last updated: 5 Oct 2021)
A list of planned work is being put together and may include the following:
- review efficiency with respect to code optimisation and memory usage;
- design, document, and implement options that are available in CASAL (e.g., selectivity functions, stock-recruitment relationships);
- design, document, and implement q-ratios functionality;
- review and edit the User Manual;
- review and update the R package; and
- develop training materials.
A Casal2 workshop was held online on 5 October 2021. This workshop described the project status and recent work and provided information on planned work.
(last updated: 6 Aug 2020)
A list of planned work is being put together and may include the following:
- review and refine project management framework;
- evaluate collaboration and project communication tools (i.e., is Casal2 accessible?);
- initiate Casal2 Advisory Group;
- review and test the tagging functionality;
- review Casal2 efficiency with respect to code optimisation and memory usage;
- design, document, and implement options that are available in CASAL (e.g., selectivity functions, stock-recruitment relationships);
- design, document, and implement q-ratios and weight-frequencies functionality;
- review the design of the existing length based functionality and prioritise development;
- review unit tests (coverage and efficacy) and document best practice;
- evaluate third-party MCMC algorithms; and
- develop training materials.
(last updated: 6 Aug 2020)
Work in progress includes:
- testing and validating with simulated data, e.g., the simulated data from the NOAA Fisheries Stock Assessment Model Comparison Project;
- extracting the Hessian from CppAD minimisation;
- reviewing and editing the User Manual;
- reviewing the R package; and
- more review and testing of the retained/discarded catch functionality.
(last updated: 6 Aug 2020)
Planned work included:
- design and develop the project management framework for enabling collaboration and ongoing maintenance and support;
- set up project hosting and CI/CD on NIWA-managed resources;
- determine project status including reviewing history of Casal2 development, and reviewing all available documentation;
- determine project state including reviewing source code and issues in the repository;
- enable user and developer engagement;
- identify and document a tractable set of useful (common to multiple age-based assessments of NZ deepwater stocks) functionality required in Casal2 V1.0;
- develop and construct a set of Test Cases models in CASAL and Casal2 that include commonly used options for NZ deepwater stock assessments;
- document, test, and validate the functionality used for the Test Cases;
- review the MCMC functionality;
- review the projection functionality;
- review and update the User Manual;
- review and update the R package; and
- create versioned docker images for reproducibility.